Eckhart Tolle Quotes

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

I like nothing more than walking down a country lane or along a mountain path - it's not proof that there is anything bigger than ourselves, but I feel very much at peace.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.