Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes
DogmaSufferingFalse SecurityIgnorance Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
Oneness With GodSpiritual GuidanceSelf-Realization I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.
Emotional PainAvoidanceEnergyUnresolved Trauma There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
Present MomentLifeMindfulness Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
PresenceIntentional ChoicesPersonal ResponsibilityAcceptance 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.
Presence Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
MindfulnessPresenceProblem-Solving Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
Mindfulness Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Spiritual AwakeningSufferingSelf-DiscoveryInner Transformation Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.
EgoDysfunctionInsanityCollective Behavior The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
Self-AwarenessIdentityInner PeaceLiberation What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
PresenceMindfulnessAwarenessStillness When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
ActionLearningGrowthPerseverance Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
ThoughtMental ControlMindfulnessSelf-Awareness Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
EmotionDetachmentIdentity Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
PresenceSuccessMindfulness 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.
Self-IdentityProblemSelf-Perception Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
EgoHumanityConnectionEmpathy When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
ReligionSpirituality You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
HopePresent MomentsTimeHappiness People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
NegativityMindsetAnxietyGuilt People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
PresenceAcceptanceOptimism Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
BalanceSelf-ForgivenessPersonal GrowthMoving ForwardAcceptance There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
MindfulnessSelf-ControlIntrospectionPower of ThoughtMental Discipline The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
PresenceInterconnectionOnenessLoveSpirituality In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
AcceptanceActionPowerVictimhoodMindfulness To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
AcceptanceGrowthResilienceOptimismMindset Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
ThoughtIdentitySelf-AwarenessPerspective Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Cultural ConditioningLimited ExposureAwarenessIdentity If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
IdentityMindfulnessOnenessTranscendenceConsciousness The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
ProcessPresent MomentPatienceGreatness So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
AcceptanceUncertaintyAnswersWisdom Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Present MomentFutureCopingAcceptance You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
Trapped ThoughtsFreedomAnimal ConnectionMindfulness For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
PresenceMindfulnessAwarenessConsciousness When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
PrejudiceMindsetDehumanizationViolence Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
AwarenessMindfulness Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
EssenceInner StrengthEnduranceSelf-RelianceGroundedness Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
EgoIndividualismCollectivism In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
SpiritualityCreationIntelligenceNatureUniverse I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
Self-Knowledge 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.
Inner BeingEssenceIdentity The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
GratitudeMindfulnessSpiritualityPresenceLife It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.