Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

In this moment, you have everything you need, and life is just a series of moments.