Eckhart Tolle

"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."

"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?"

"When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. p. 17"

"You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now."

"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself."

"Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego."

"All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind."

"The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence. p. 76"

"Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions."

"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are! p. 91"

"The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end."

"Instead of asking "what do I want from life?", a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?"