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
I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.
If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.
The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.
Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.
Facing facts is always empowering.
In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship - inner space - the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness.
The only thing you ever have is now.
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.