Tolle, Eckhart Quotes

Don't get attached to any words. They are only stepping stones to be left behind as quickly as possible.

Some become capable of breaking out of inherited collective mind patterns that have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Flowers have no problems.

A time came when for a while I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially devised identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.

Don't try to grasp Being with your mind. You can know it only when the mind is still.

I could still function in the world, although I realized that nothing I ever did could possibly add anything to what I already had.

I cannot live with myself any longer. This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. Am I one or two? If I canot 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.

People who have never even glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind the word God, use it with great conviction.

The intense pressure of suffering that night must have forced my consciousness to withdraw from its identification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self, which is ultimately a fiction of the mind.

The knower in you dwells behind the thinker.