Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

If you don't do yoga, it doesn't mean that you can't have a sense of detachment, which means not attaching yourself to your thoughts or your emotions.

Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.