Eckhart Tolle on Patience Quotes

"If you find your here and now intolerable, you have three options: remove yourself, change it, or accept it totally."

"You do not become patient by trying to be patient. You become patient by becoming present."

"Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you."

"Impatience is a sign that you have forgotten who you are. You have identified with the mind."

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Patience changes the thought."

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

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

"When you are in a state of patience, you are not looking for the next thing; you are at home in this thing."

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

"Patience is the realization that the destination is always the journey itself."

"Can you be patient with your own impatience? That is where the healing begins."

"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."

"When you are patient, you are in alignment with the rhythm of the universe."

"Patience is the inner space that allows the outer world to unfold without causing you suffering."

"Patience is the recognition that everything has its own timing, independent of your ego's demands."

"Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there.' Patience is being 'here' and being okay with it."

"Patience is the spaciousness that allows others to be exactly who they are without your judgment."

"Accept the present moment as if you had chosen it. This is the essence of patience."

"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present through patience."

"The more you practice patience, the more you realize that there is nowhere to go but the Now."

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

"The ego always wants to be somewhere else. Patience is the death of the ego."

"Patience is the quiet strength that arises when you stop fighting the flow of life."

"Patience is not a state of waiting; it is a state of being."

"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world."

"Patience is the bridge between the world of form and the world of the formless."

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

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. Patience is trusting that."

"Patience is the stillness that remains when the mind's demand for 'more' or 'different' falls away."

"Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world."

"Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present."

"Being at peace with the fact that you are not at peace is also a form of patience."

"Patience means you are no longer in a hurry to get to the end of the sentence, the end of the day, or the end of your life."