Eckhart Tolle

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

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.