Eckhart Tolle Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.”

“Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.”

“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.”

“If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.”

“Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.”

“You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.”

“If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.”

“You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.”

“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”

“Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.”