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
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.
Facing facts is always empowering.
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.
Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.
What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.