Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

You cannot have a need to be loved and be an effective change agent.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Don't fall in love with someone you can live with, fall in love with someone you can't live without.

Falling in love is like owning a dog.

Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.

Love is sentimental measles.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.

All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.

Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

I do believe this: That what we call love is always available to us. And of course I'm not just talking about passion. I'm talking about love where you just can't conceive that your life isn't perfect, that you can't conceive of wanting anything.

What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you...We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.