Eckhart Tolle

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man’s use more than his own.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.