Eckhart Tolle on Action Quotes

"If there is no joy in your doing, it means you have lost the present moment. Bring your attention back to the now."

"You are not your actions. You are the consciousness behind the actions."

"If you cannot find joy or ease in what you are doing, at least you can accept it. Acceptance means: This is what the situation requires of me, so I do it willingly."

"Presence is a state of inner spaciousness. When you act from that space, you are not trapped by the limitations of your mind."

"If your action is fueled by anger or fear, it will only create more anger and fear, no matter what you achieve."

"True intelligence acts silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found."

"If you are not enjoying what you are doing, you are either being resistant to it or you are lost in your mind's projections."

"When you stop resisting what is, you become a channel for a much greater power to act through you."

"To do one thing at a time with full attention is to be in a state of 'flow.' This is the highest form of productivity."

"When you act from a sense of lack, your actions will only produce more lack. Act from a sense of fullness."

"The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what determines the quality of your future."

"If you take action from a state of inner peace, that peace will flow into whatever you do."

"Success is not a destination you reach; it is the quality of the step you are taking right now."

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are having as you act."

"Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now."

"Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death."

"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."

"The most important thing is not what you do, but how you do it. The 'how' is determined by your state of consciousness."

"In any situation, you have three choices: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally."

"When you are present, you don't need to plan every detail. The right action arises spontaneously from the stillness."

"Do not worry about the fruit of your actions; rather, give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord."

"Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it."

"Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness."

"Right action is the action that is appropriate to the situation. It is not a reaction based on your past conditioning."

"Sometimes 'doing' is not what is required. Sometimes 'being' is the most powerful action you can take."

"Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there,' or being in the present but wanting to be in the future."

"Action that is taken in a state of presence is always more effective than action taken in a state of stress."

"The ego thinks that through taking action, it can eventually reach a point of satisfaction. But the ego can never be satisfied."

"When you are in alignment with the present moment, you are in alignment with the source of all action."

"Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is overpowering the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle."

"The world only changes from the inside out. Your first action is always to find your inner stillness."

"Action may be required; it may be the only thing you can do. But make sure the action arises out of presence, not out of a reaction to the past."

"Awakened doing is the alignment of your outer purpose—what you do—with your inner purpose—staying awake and present."