Stillness Speaks Quotes:

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.53, New World Library

topic: Truth Is, Stillness Speaks

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.8, New World Library

topic: World, Form, Stillness Speaks

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 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

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library

topic: Flower, Tree, Looks, Stillness Speaks, Rooted

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Sadness, Boredom, Feeling Sad, Stillness Speaks, Human Mind

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Looks, Ability, Needed, Activate, Stillness Speaks

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.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Self, Names, Meditation, Stillness Speaks, Lost Yourself

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Space, Perception, Emotion, Stillness Speaks, Sense Perception

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Space, Perception, Essentials, Stillness Speaks

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

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Stillness Speaks

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Creativity, Spirituality, Problem, Stillness Speaks, True Intelligence

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Balance, World, Losing Yourself, Spaciousness, Stillness Speaks

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.14, New World Library

topic: Philosophical, Thinking, Momentum, Stillness Speaks

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Humility, Compassion, True Freedom, Stillness Speaks

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

You don't 'have' a 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.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Stars, Animal, Stones, Stillness Speaks, Blades Of Grass

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Love Relationship, Doe, Want, Stillness Speaks

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Life Is, Moments, Stillness Speaks

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 present moment is all you ever have.

- Eckhart Tolle

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

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Pain, Emotional, Long, Stillness Speaks, Emotional Pain

On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Life Changing, Friendly, Looks, Stillness Speaks

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

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.16, New World Library

topic: Thinking, Want, Where You Are, Stillness Speaks

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Opposites, Stillness Speaks

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Matter, Moments, Accepting, Stillness Speaks

A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, Giving, Spiritual Teachers, Stillness Speaks

Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Fear, Thinking, Compassion, Stillness Speaks, Hostile

Love does not want or fear anything.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

topic: Love, Doe, Want, Stillness Speaks

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

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Knowing, Stillness Speaks

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.43, New World Library

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Stillness Speaks

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Past, Stillness Speaks

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Opposites, Birth, Life Is, Stillness Speaks, Birth Life

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

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Dream, Spiritual, Awakening, Spiritual Awakening, Stillness Speaks

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 (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Truth, Mean, Understanding, Totality, Stillness Speaks