Eckhart Tolle Quotes

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

The only thing that limits you right now is you.

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.