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
Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
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.
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.
When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.
If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.
Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me