Eckhart Tolle

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The past has no power over the present moment.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

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.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

I have lived with several Zen masters—all of them cats.

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it.