Power Of Now Quotes:

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

- Herb Alpert

source: "Trumpeter Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 3, 2014.

topic: Art, Power Of Now, Art Is, Sculpting

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.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.16, New World Library

topic: Mind, Use, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

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

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.108, New World Library

topic: Mean, Levels, Power Of Now, Signposts

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Levels, Power Of Now, Divine

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.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.43, New World Library

topic: Mind, Moments, Power Of Now

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

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.159, New World Library

topic: Power Of Now, Conscious

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

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

topic: Power Of Now, Stripping, New Earth, Secret Life, Inner Power

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

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Twitter post from Jul 19, 2009

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Stillness Speaks, Happiness Is A Choice

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Past, Finding Yourself, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.33, New World Library

topic: Pain, Degrees, Resistance, Power Of Now

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Struggle, Quality Care, Power Of Now

The past has no power over the present moment.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Positive, Wisdom, Philosophical, Stress And Anxiety, Past Happiness

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

topic: Regret, Stress, Sadness, Stress And Anxiety, Stress And Worry

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.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Ideas, Oneness, Accomplishment, Indestructible, Connectedness

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Religious, Knowledge, Ego, Belief Systems, Spiritual Awareness

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Wisdom, Space, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Pain, Long, Mind, Power Of Now

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.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Death, Secret Life, Inner Power

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Beauty, Stillness Speaks, Divine Purpose

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. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Past, Ego, Mind, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Love You, Positivity, Validation, Material Wealth, Scrap

The present moment is all you ever have.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Moments, Stillness Speaks, Power Of Now

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Awareness, Limiting Yourself, Define Yourself, Power Of Now

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Pain, Joy, Consciousness, Joy And Pain, Spiritual Joy

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.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Spirit, Forgotten, Spiritual Truth, Deep Within

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Yoga, Fall, Goes On, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Weather, People, Finding Yourself, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. 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.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Self, Mind, Trying, Means To An End, Power Of Now

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Success, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Life Appreciation, Daily Gratitude

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Creativity, Joy, Spiritual Peace, Spiritual Power

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Life, Positive, Spiritual, Live In The Now, Stillness Speaks

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Memories, Past, Giving, Power Of Now

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Life, Pick Me Up, Mind, Power Of Now

Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.81, New World Library

topic: Pain, Emotional, Thinking, Emotional Pain, Power Of Now

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Karma, Conscious Awareness, Power Of Now

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Time, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Business, Fall, Fall Into Place, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Time, Illusion, Power Of Now, New Earth

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Needs, Realizing, Moments, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Reflection, Mind, Body, Power Of Now

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, People, Waiting, Power Of Now

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.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Love Is, Body, States, Power Of Now

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Past, Identity, Needs, Power Of Now, Psychological Needs

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Power Of Now

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

topic: Life, Live In The Moment, Moments, Mindful Living, Stillness Speaks

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Love, Joy, Mind, Power Of Now

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

topic: Reality, Insanity, Humorous Birthday, Hurting You, Gold Digger

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.45, New World Library

topic: Strength, Spiritual, Weakness, Power Of Now, Power Over Others

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Encouragement, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Relationship, Pain, Causes, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Spiritual Awakening, Stillness Speaks