Eckhart Tolle

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.

Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

Nothing that comes and goes is you. _x000D_ _x000D_ 'I am bored.' Who knows this? _x000D_ _x000D_ 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? _x000D_ _x000D_ You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

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.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.