ECKHART TOLLE QUOTES POWER OF NOW

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”

“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

“Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.”

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.”

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”

“You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”

“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional.”

“All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind.”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

“The greatest enemy of the present moment is continuous mental noise.”

“Most humans are never fully present in the now because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.” INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE ABOUT SUMMER

“To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.”

“Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.”

“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”

“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is?”

“Instead of asking ‘What do I want from life?’ a more powerful question is ‘What does life want from me?'”

“Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet.”

“The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.”

“Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.”

“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive.”

“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.”

“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.”

“Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”