Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

Now I don't put things in the boxes anymore. I'm just focusing on right now.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

I don't look any further than what's right in front of me.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

Everyone wants to look to the future and into the past. I stay focused on now.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

life is the moment we're living right now.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

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.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.