In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space a time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness.

— Eckhart Tolle

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the manifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

— Eckhart Tolle

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

I would say about 80 to 90 percent of people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunction and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will know this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

— Eckhart Tolle

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

— Eckhart Tolle

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

— Eckhart Tolle

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