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    Home » Quotes & Affirmations

    68 Soothing Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Love, Fear & Death

    Published: Jun 14, 2020 · Updated: Aug 13, 2021 by Jessica Dimas · Leave a Comment · Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I’ll earn a commission, at no additional cost to you.

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    Eckhart Tolle quotes are some of the most powerful for when you want to take a step back and see everything from a much higher, more calm perspective.

    It may appear that things are chaotic, out of control, and lacking in love, but the reality is that love is always present–we just have to bring our focus into the Now moment in order to become aware of it.

    Soothing Eckhart Tolle quotes love, fear and death

    Who is Eckhart Tolle

    Eckhart Tolle is a German-born metaphysical spiritual author and teacher. He has an incredible back story of how he manifested The Power of Now, which is a New York Times best-seller, through channeling the information and then getting it out into the world.

    He doesn't identify with any specific religion but takes the underlying principles of love from many of them. He has said that he suffered from depression in his younger years until the age of 29, when he underwent an inner transformation that changed him forever.

    Spiritual texts he has mentioned in his teachings have come from the Tao Te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita and other Hindu texts, the Buddhist texts, the Old Testament, the New Testament, and A Course in Miracles.

    His teachings, specifically from this book The Power of Now, have personally helped me to greatly elevate my awareness in many ways. I recommend reading it more than once since the concepts need time to seep in and to be fully comprehended. It's in my top three must-reads.

    Quotes are something I love to read when I'm falling asleep after a hard day, or when I need quick reminders of what I know to be true. I hope you find these quotes by Eckhart Tolle as soothing as I have found them to be.

    Eckhart Tolle quotes on love

    1. "To love is to recognize yourself in another."

    2. "Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you."

    3. "Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain."

    4. "To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change."

    5. "You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while."

    Eckhart Tolle you are the universe quote

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

    7. "The moment judgement stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace."

    8. "You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are."

    9. "Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality."

    10. "The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state."

    11. "True communication is communion–the realization of oneness, which is love."

    12. "Real love doesn't make you suffer. How could it? It doesn't suddenly turn into hate, nor does real joy turn into pain."

    13. "Love isn't a portal; it's what comes through the portal into this world. Your task is not to search for love but to find a portal through which love can enter."

    14. "Giving space to others – and to yourself – is vital. Love cannot flourish without it."

    15. "They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer."

    Love, joy, and peace Eckhart Tolle quote

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

    17. "When you act out of present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action."

    18. "The more consciousness you bring into the body, the stronger the immune system becomes. It is as if every cell awakens and rejoices. The body loves your attention."

    19. "Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love."

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

    21. "In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship – inner space – the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness."

    22. "The intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting sext to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs."

    Eckhart Tolle quotes on fear

    23. "Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally; not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."

    24. "The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now–to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now."

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

    26. "'This is my secret,' he said. 'I don't mind what happens.'"

    27. "Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence."

    Unhappiness Eckhart Tolle quote

    28. "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."

    29. "Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."

    30. "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

    31. "If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity."

    32. "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."

    33. "Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom."

    Life isn't as serious Eckhart Tolle quote

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

    35. "A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motived by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either."

    36. "Do not resist your pain. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labelling it mentally. Allow it to be there. Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace."

    37. "Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life."

    38. "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."

    39. "Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time."

    When you become comfortable Eckhart Tolle

    40. "When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life."

    41. "Are you worried? Do you have many 'what if' thoughts? You are identified with your mind, which is projecting itself into an imaginary future situation and creating fear. There is no way you can cope with such a situation because it doesn't exist. It's a mental phantom. You can stop this health and life-corroding insanity simply by acknowledging the present moment."

    42. "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."

    43. "Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy."

    Eckhart Tolle quotes on death

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

    45. "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."

    46. "A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth."

    47. "Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolutions exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age."

    48. "Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end."

    49. "The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously."

    50. "In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness."

    51. "When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death, and that there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies."

    The more you live in the present moment Eckhart Tolle

    52. "The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears."

    53. "Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form."

    54. "When great loss happens – deaths close to you or your own approaching death – this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death."

    55. "Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions."

    Nothing that twas real ever died Eckhart Tolle quote

    56. "The end of illusion – that's all death is. It is painful only as long as you cling to illusion."

    57. "When you go deep enough into the formless, the dreadful is no longer dreadful, it's sacred. Then you will experience the two levels, when somebody dies who is close to you. Yes it's dreadful on the level of form. It's sacred on the deeper level. Death can enable you to find that dimension in yourself. You're helping countless other humans if you find that dimension in yourself – the sacred dimension of life. Death can help you find the sacred dimension of life – where life is indestructible."

    Quotes from A New Earth

    58. "Whatever you think people are withholding from you–praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on–give it to them."

    59. "Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: evolve or die. If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction."

    60. "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your soul. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because it's the one you are having."

    61. "To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence."

    62. "Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment – the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind."

    63. "Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth."

    64. "If the thought of lack – whether it be money, recognition or love – has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

    Whatever you think Eckhart Tolle quote

    65. "Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

    66. "You don't need to own anything to feel abundant, although if you feel abundant consistently, things will almost certainly come to you."

    67. "Give up defining yourself–to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem."

    68. "To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. The is the new earth."


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    Jessica Dimas is the creator of Anything Can Be: A Reference Guide for Applying the Law of Attraction.

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