Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.

Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment.

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

I always live in the present - I love the present. I cherish the future.

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I certainly have the problem of focusing on doing everything now to get where I want to be, and not actually seeing and taking in and appreciating what's right in front of me or who's right in front of me.

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good as it gets, and it's very likely to get worse.

Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you.

Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.

I'm always 20 minutes ahead of myself in my head. But being present - it's beautiful when it happens.

Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they're always looking to future and not appreciating what's in front of them right now.