Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes
ReligionSpirituality You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Spiritual AwakeningInner StrengthSelf-discoveryTransformation That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
DogmaSufferingFalse SecurityIgnorance Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
ChallengePerspectivePresent Moment If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
FearEgoDeath 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.
Present MomentFutureCopingAcceptance You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
TruthInner WisdomRecognitionSpirituality The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.
Present MomentLifeMindfulness Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
EmotionDetachmentIdentity Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Oneness With GodSpiritual GuidanceSelf-Realization I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.
ProcessPresent MomentPatienceGreatness So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
GratitudePresenceAcceptance I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
MindfulnessPresenceSelf-careSpace When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
Inner LoveSelf-RelianceEndurance Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
AcceptancePeaceConsciousness Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
Inner WisdomSpiritualityConsciousness Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.
ThoughtIdentitySelf-AwarenessPerspective Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
ForgivenessLetting GoPersonal Growth If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
PresenceMindfulnessAwarenessConsciousness When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
NegativityMindsetAnxietyGuilt People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
AcceptanceUncertaintyAnswersWisdom Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
PresenceAcceptanceOptimism Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Self-AwarenessIdentityInner PeaceLiberation What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
FearMindfulnessActionCourage Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
AcceptanceNon-judgmentUnconditional Love When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
StillnessSpiritualityPracticeEnlightenmentLetting Go Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
RealismPerspectiveInfluence There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
The PresentMindfulness People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Negative MindsetFuturePersonal Responsibility Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Inner StrengthSelf-PerceptionResilience If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
EgoIndividualismCollectivism In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
PresenceSuccessMindfulness Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
MemoriesThoughtBeliefFreedomPerspective Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
EgoHumanityConnectionEmpathy When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
PresenceSelf-awarenessInner Being I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
HopePresent MomentsTimeHappiness People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
ContentmentPurificationInner PeaceHarmony We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
MindStructureGrowthTransformation If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
BalanceSelf-ForgivenessPersonal GrowthMoving ForwardAcceptance There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
ThoughtMental ControlMindfulnessSelf-Awareness Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Cultural ConditioningLimited ExposureAwarenessIdentity If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Emotional PainAvoidanceEnergyUnresolved Trauma There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
MindfulnessPresenceTime PerceptionSelf-AwarenessFulfillment Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.