Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Theories pass. The frog remains.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

Development is the only hard truth.

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.