Eckhart Tolle Quotes

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

All eternity is in the moment.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

No matter what happens, it’s always now.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

find your eternity in each moment

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now.

The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.