Eckhart Tolle on Wisdom Quotes

"To the ego, the present moment is a threat because it reveals the ego's unreality."

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

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

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

"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."

"The discipline of gratitude shifts your focus from what is missing to what is present."

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

"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."

"The discipline of patience is required when waiting for the ego to dissolve."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The capacity to listen to the silence is the beginning of true inner strength."

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

"Discipline is the bridge between the noise of the world and the silence of the heart."

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

"Fear is the noise of the ego trying to protect its fragile identity."

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

"Acknowledge the 'isness' of this moment. Then, you have the power to act."

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

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

"Discipline is not a burden when you realize it is the path to freedom."

"The discipline of solitude allows you to reconnect with the depth of your being."

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

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

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

"Impatience is the ego's way of saying it knows better than the universe."

"You cannot fight fear; you can only bring the light of awareness to it."

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

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