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
When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.
Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes.Bring a 'yes' to the isness, because it's pointless to argue if it already is.A greater intelligence is available to you when you no longer reject, deny, or 'don't want' what is.
Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.
To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness
Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.
Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.
The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.
When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.