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
Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.
It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.
An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
The past has no power over the present moment.
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.
It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.
The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.
You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.