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
Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.
Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.
True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
Man made God in his own image...
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.