Eckert Tolle quotes

This is a small collection I have made of Eckert Tolle quotes.  I have been immersed in reading Tolle’s books this winter and taking responsibility for my own consciousness.  If you have not discovered Tolle’s inspiring books yet I encourage you to do so.

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.

Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don’t know who they are.  You say: “He lost his life” or “my life,” as if life were something that you can possess or lose.  The truth is: you don’t have life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That? The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend.  No thought can encapsulate the Truth.  At best, it can point to it.  For example, it can say: “All things are intrinsically one.” That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point. When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.  When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness.  This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” —  and find that there is no death.

Reincarnation doesn’t help you if in your next incarnation you still don’t know who you are.

When you walk through a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man, you will see not only abundant life all around you, but you will also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step.  Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life.

Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves.  Microorganisms are at work.  Molecules are rearranging themselves.  So death isn’t to be found anywhere.  There is only the metamorphosis of life forms.  What can you learn from this?

Death is not the opposite of life.  Life has no opposite.  The opposite of death is birth.  Life is eternal.

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