Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes
AcceptanceGrowthMindsetOptimismResilience Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
AcceptanceActionMindfulnessPowerVictimhood 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.
Oneness With GodSelf-RealizationSpiritual Guidance 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.
ReligionSpirituality You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
MindfulnessPresenceSuccess 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.
IntrospectionMental DisciplineMindfulnessPower of ThoughtSelf-Control 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.
DetachmentEmotionIdentity 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.
Mental ControlMindfulnessSelf-awarenessThought Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
AcceptanceBalanceMoving ForwardPersonal GrowthSelf-Forgiveness 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.
Collective BehaviorDYSFUNCTIONEgoInsanity 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.
ConnectionEgoEmpathyHumanity 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.
Inner TransformationSelf-DiscoverySpiritual AwakeningSuffering 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.
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.
AvoidanceEmotional PainEnergyUnresolved 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.
HappinessHopePresent MomentsTime People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
AcceptanceOptimismPresence 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.
ProblemSelf-IdentitySelf-Perception Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
IdentityInner PeaceLiberationSelf-awareness 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.
LifeMindfulnessPresent Moment 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.
AwarenessMindfulnessPresenceStillness 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.
DogmaFalse SecurityIgnoranceSuffering 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.
AcceptanceIntentional ChoicesPersonal ResponsibilityPresence 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.
AnxietyGuiltMindsetNegativity 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.
InterconnectionLoveOnenessPresenceSpirituality 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.
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?