Eckhart Tolle Quotes

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.

When you pray, remember that you are not praying to a distant God, but to the God that dwells within you. Don't just speak the words; feel what they mean in your life. Don't pray from your lips, but from your heart. Your prayers aren't for God, they are for you, to remind you of the presence of the Holy Spirit within you. When you say "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done," remember that you are loved and protected. God has planned greater things for us than we can imagine. The more we maintain an awareness of God's unchanging love, the safer and more at home we will feel in the world.

If you find it difficult to love the human in someone, then love the divine in him. The divine in him is God. God exists in that person just as God exists in you. To love God is extremely easy because God is divine and perfect. Each time you look at an individual, if you can consciously become aware of God's existence in him, then you will not be disturbed by his or her imperfections or limitations.

Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

You are within God. God is within you.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Where love is, there God is also.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.