Eckhart Tolle on Perseverance Quotes

"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."

"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."

"To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad."

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

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

"Non-resistance doesn't necessarily mean doing nothing. All it means is that any 'doing' becomes non-reactive."

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment."

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy."

"When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness."

"Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing."

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

"Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain."

"The past has no power over the present moment."

"To love is to recognize yourself in another."

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change."

"Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you."

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

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."

"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you."

"Resistance to the present moment is the only thing that creates suffering."

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

"Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living."

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."

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

"Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness."

"If you can't find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."

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

"You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are."

"Some things happen that are seemingly bad, but you will find that a space is created for something new to emerge."

"Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment."

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

"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life."

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