Eckhart Tolle Quotes

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.

There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.