Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.

Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it's free.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

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.