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
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.
The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.
Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
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.
True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.
You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.