Eckhart Tolle Quotes

If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

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

I am only at home in the present.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

I try to just take in every moment of being alive.

You have to be present, awake and happy now.

There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.

We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present.