Eckhart Tolle Power Quotations

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say "Yes" to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that "Yes," that state of inner non-resistance to what is.

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.

Facing facts is always empowering.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

Man made God in his own image...

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the breath of nature. You reconnect with nature in the most intimate and powerful way by becoming aware of your breathing and learning to hold your attention there. This is a healing and deeply empowering thing to do. It brings about a shift in consciousness from the conceptual world of thought to the inner realm of unconditioned consciousness.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

True Power is within, and it is available now.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real." "Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?,' a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.