Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolleis a German-born resident of Canada, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. In 2011, he was listed by Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world. In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States"...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth16 February 1948
CityLunen, Germany
CountryGermany
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.
Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.
You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there.
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
For what you do to others, you do to yourself.
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness
Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.
Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.