Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

You're always just going to be who you are.

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

You were born as the one you are.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.

You are.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

What thou art, that thou art.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.