109 Truly Inspiring Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2022)

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and one of the most popular spiritual authors of the United States. His teaching helps the world find their inner peace and ease them to fulfill the fundamentals of life. He travels throughout the world and is among most sought after public speaker and a teacher. He believes that spiritual awakening uplifts human evolution and according to him this awakening consists of transcending one’s ego-based state of consciousness.

Eckhart was born in Germany but was resided in Canada. He belonged to a broken family and faced depression, anxiety and fear till he was 29. He describes his inner transformation in a very stimulating way. He says, “I couldn’t live with myself any longer. And in this, a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I’ that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! I didn’t know at the time that what happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past, and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The next morning, I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or “beingness,” just observing and watching.

He also owns a company named “Eckhart Teachings” that handles the sales of all his books and other teaching material. He also co-hosted a webinar with Oprah Winfrey. This spiritual leader has a net worth of an estimated $70 million.

His book, “The Power of Now” became an international bestseller. It was translated into more than 33 languages. Let’s have a glance at some of Eckhart motivating quotes from The Power of Now.

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43 Eckhart Tolle Motivational Quote from The Power of Life

“You are awareness, disguised as a person.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet” – Eckhart Tolle
“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever can observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.” – Eckhart Tolle
“In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. “That’s dangerous,” says the ego. “You’ll get hurt. You’ll become vulnerable.” What the ego doesn’t know, of course, is that only through the letting go of resistance, through becoming “vulnerable,” can you discover your true and essential invulnerability.” – Eckhart Tolle
“If you both agree that the relationship will be your spiritual practice, so much the better. You can then express your thoughts and feelings to each other as soon as they occur, or as soon as a reaction comes up, so that you do not create a time gap in which an unexpressed or unacknowledged emotion or grievance can fester and grow. Learn to give expression to what you feel without blaming. Learn to listen to your partner in an open, non-defensive way. Give your partner space for expressing himself or herself. Be present. Accusing, defending, attacking — all those patterns that are designed to strengthen or protect the ego or to get its needs met will then become redundant. Giving space to others — and to yourself — is vital. Love cannot flourish without it. When you have removed the two factors that are destructive to relationships — when the pain-body has been transmuted and you are no longer identified with mind and mental positions — and if your partner has done the same, you will experience the bliss of the flowering of relationship. Instead of mirroring to each other your pain and your unconsciousness, instead of satisfying your mutual addictive ego needs, you will reflect back to each other the love that you feel deep within, the love that comes with the realization of your oneness with all that is. This is the love that has no opposite.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse… By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoist delusions, such as “My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false,” or Nietzsche’s famous statement “God is dead.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don’t know what they want. We think they are mad.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next.” – Eckhart Tolle
“But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.” – Eckhart Tolle
“So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That’s all right, I wasn’t waiting. I was just standing” – Eckhart Tolle
“The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there,” or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species.” – Eckhart Tolle
“To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Don’t look for peace.
Don’t look for any ther state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance.
Forgive yourself for not being peace.
The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrencer.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You are awareness, disguised as a person.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet” – Eckhart Tolle
“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.” – Eckhart Tolle
“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. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.” – Eckhart Tolle
“In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. “That’s dangerous,” says the ego. “You’ll get hurt. You’ll become vulnerable.” What the ego doesn’t know, of course, is that only through the letting go of resistance, through becoming “vulnerable,” can you discover your true and essential invulnerability.” – Eckhart Tolle
“If you both agree that the relationship will be your spiritual practice, so much the better. You can then express your thoughts and feelings to each other as soon as they occur, or as soon as a reaction comes up, so that you do not create a time gap in which an unexpressed or unacknowledged emotion or grievance can fester and grow. Learn to give expression to what you feel without blaming. Learn to listen to your partner in an open, nondefensive way. Give your partner space for expressing himself or herself. Be present. Accusing, defending, attacking — all those patterns that are designed to strengthen or protect the ego or to get its needs met will then become redundant. Giving space to others — and to yourself — is vital. Love cannot flourish without it. When you have removed the two factors that are destructive to relationships — when the pain-body has been transmuted and you are no longer identified with mind and mental positions — and if your partner has done the same, you will experience the bliss of the flowering of relationship. Instead of mirroring to each other your pain and your unconsciousness, instead of satisfying your mutual addictive ego needs, you will reflect back to each other the love that you feel deep within, the love that comes with the realization of your oneness with all that is. This is the love that has no opposite.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse… By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as “My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false,” or Nietzsche’s famous statmeent “God is dead.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don’t know what they want. We think they are mad.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next.” – Eckhart Tolle
“But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.” – Eckhart Tolle
“So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That’s all right, I wasn’t waiting. I was just standing” – Eckhart Tolle
“Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there,” or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species.” – Eckhart Tolle
“To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Don’t look for peace.
Don’t look for any ther state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance.
Forgive yourself for not being peace.
The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace
Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrencer.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.” – Eckhart Tolle
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.” – Eckhart Tolle
“In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find the solution, nor can it afford to allow you to find the solution, because it is itself an intrinsic part of the “problem.” Imagine a chief of police trying to find an arsonist when the arsonist is the chief of police. You will not be free of that pain until you cease to derive your sense of self from identification with the mind, which is to say from ego. The mind is then toppled from its place” – Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle on Present

Eckhart believed that a person should forget his past and should live in present. Negativities comes in life to emerge some positive learning as he says it’s our thought is the basic reason behind unhappy situations. Let’s know more about Eckhart’s view on the present moment through his quotes.

10 Eckhart Tolle aspiring Quote on Present Moment

“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
“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 the moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” – Eckhart Tolle

3 Best Eckhart Tolle Quotes on 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.  It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them – while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you’re already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.” – Eckhart Tolle

13 Eckhart Tolle Quote on Who We Are

“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” – Eckhart Tolle
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
“So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.” – Eckhart Tolle
“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You are not the voice in your mind, but the one who is aware of it.” – Eckhart Tolle
“To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for your inner state at any given moment. That means now.” – Eckhart Tolle
“If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn’t know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.” – Eckhart Tolle
“To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them — their past, their history, their story.” – Eckhart Tolle

4 Eckhart Tolle Inspirational Quote on letting Go

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” – Eckhart Tolle
“When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don’t know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.” – Eckhart Tolle
“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.” – Eckhart Tolle

3 Eckhart Tolle Quote on EGO

“In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. “That’s dangerous,” says the ego. “You’ll get hurt. You’ll become vulnerable.” What the ego doesn’t know, of course, is that only through the letting go of resistance, through becoming “vulnerable,” can you discover your true and essential invulnerability.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.” – Eckhart Tolle
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position – a perspective, an opinion, a judgment, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.” – Eckhart Tolle

10 Eckhart Tolle inspiring Quote on Love and Life

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” – Eckhart Tolle
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to goof works and responsibility.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Life will give you whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Be true to life by being true to your inner purpose. As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the ‘love’ of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.” – Eckhart Tolle

5 Eckhart Tolle demeaning Quote on Happiness

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.” – Eckhart Tolle
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.” – Eckhart Tolle
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness” – Eckhart Tolle

3 Eckhart Tolle on Acceptance

“All you really need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always “Is that so?” shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic “Maybe” illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Accept – then act. 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. This will miraculously transform your whole life.” – Eckhart Tolle

5 Eckhart Tolle Quote on Change

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?” – Eckhart Tolle

Summary

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual healer. He is 72 and still preaching and healing the wounds of people with his knowledge and experience. His globally recognized work includes The Power of Now (1997) and A New Earth (2005). He has never identified any religion but his teachings are influenced by Zen Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism, and Bible. The World needs people like Eckhart to bring an optimistic approach to life. If you are depressed in any phase of life just go through his lectures and let us know about your favorite quote from Eckhart Tolle in the comment box.