Eckhart Tolle

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

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.

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

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.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

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

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the is-ness of the NOW. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you will suffer.