Eckhart Tolle Quotes

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.

Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you're wrong.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.

This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

Where you now stand is a result of thoughts and feelings that you have offered before, but where you are going is a result of your perspective of where you now stand.

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.