Eckhart Tolle Quotes

When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just surrounded with love, when I'm with my family and we're all having a wonderful time together. There's nothing greater than your family surrounding you.

The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.

You need to be able to find joy in something that requires so much of yourself. I have to have that deeper meaning in my work and in my everyday life.

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

Joy is your birthright.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.