The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Everybody you come in contact with will be touched by your presence and affected by the peace that you emanate, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don’t want the present.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The Unmanifested is not only present in this world as silence; it also pervades the entire physical universe as space — from within and without. This is just as easy to miss as silence. Everybody pays attention to the things in space, but who pays attention to space itself?
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there,” or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
How will I know when I have surrendered? When you no longer need to ask the question.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
To relinquish judgment does not mean that you do not recognize dysfunction and unconsciousness when you see it. It means “being the knowing” rather than “being the reaction” and the judge.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
presence. If you practice this, all that is unconscious in you will be brought into the light of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
If you learn to observe rather than associate with the emotion