Eckhart Tolle Quotes

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is in spirals.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

Every hundred feet the world changes

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.