Eckhart Tolle on Mindfulness 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 cannot fight fear; you can only bring the light of awareness to it."

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

"True discipline is not about punishing yourself, but about the vigilance of staying in the Now."

"The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it."

"The light of consciousness is the only thing that can dispel the darkness of fear."

"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."

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

"Impatience is a form of resistance to the present moment, which is the only moment you ever have."

"Whatever you do, do it with the full attention of the present moment. That is the secret of success in anything."

"Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment."

"Psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now."

"You are never more powerful than when you are completely still and fully present."

"If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence."

"Presence is needed to become aware of the beauty, the majesty, the sacredness of nature."

"The ego is not wrong; it's just unconscious. When you see it in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it."

"To wait consciously is to be alert, to be present. That is the highest form of patience."

"Allow the present moment to be as it is. That is the ultimate practice of patience."

"Inner strength is the ability to say 'yes' to life as it unfolds, regardless of the form it takes."

"Fear is a form of mental pollution that obscures the clarity of Being."

"As long as the egoic mind is running your life, you cannot truly be at ease; you cannot be at peace or even for long periods without fear."

"The only place where fear cannot exist is in the now."

"Fear is the projection of the mind into a future that does not exist."

"Fear is the mind’s reaction to the perceived threat to the survival of the ego."

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

"Presence is the discipline of not getting lost in your thoughts."

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

"True patience is the absence of a 'me' that is waiting."

"Presence is when you are no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one."

"Patience is not a sacrifice; it is the end of sacrifice, for there is no longer a 'future' you are sacrificing the present for."

"Action taken from a state of presence is infinitely more powerful than action taken from a state of anger."

"Every challenge is an opportunity to practice the strength of presence."

"Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance."