Eckhart Tolle Quotes

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

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 more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

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

On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

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.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

The future never comes. Life is always 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.

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.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

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.

Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

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?

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

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.

The present moment is all you ever have.