Eckhart Tolle

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.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

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

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

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

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

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.