Eckhart Tolle

"The present moment is filled with joy and peace. If you are not experiencing it, it is because you are living in your mind instead of in the now."

"Wherever you are, be all there."

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."

"Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness."

"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

"The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master."

"Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for they can never satisfy you long-term."

"When you make a choice, you change the future."

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge."

"Surrendering to what is, doesn't mean you stop taking action to change things you don't like. It means you stop fighting reality while you are taking that action."

"Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment."

"Negativity and judgment are tools of the ego."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness."

"All problems are illusions of the mind."

"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction."

"Boredom means the mind is left to its own devices without positive direction and imagination."

"Enlightenment is not separate from spiritual practice; it is spiritual practice."

"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"Stillness is also inner peace, and inner peace is the foundation of true power."

"What you fight, you strengthen. What you resist, persists."

"Evil is an illusion. There is no evil, only lack of awareness."

"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."

"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present."

"Freedom from desire is the greatest freedom."

"Every addiction arises from an unconscious fear of being present with yourself."