30 phrases by Eckhart Tolle to reflect on life transformations

Pleasure always originates from something external to us, while joy is born from within.

Life will provide us with all the experiences that are most useful to the evolution of our consciousness.

True intelligence works in silence. It is in the silence where creativity and problem solving meet.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yup. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace, no.

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

The ego is always a master of selective perception and distorted interpretation. Only through consciousness and not thought are we able to differentiate between fact and opinion.

Wherever you are, be whole.

When you lose touch with the stillness within, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

Negativity is never the best way to handle any situation. In fact, in most cases, it paralyzes us, blocking any real change.

When we forgive, our victim identity dissipates and our true strength manifests.

The main cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.

People, upon suffering a great loss, become deeply unhappy and fall ill. They cannot distinguish life from the life situation.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Suffering takes a long time to remember that it is unnecessary.

Life is not as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

The pollution of the planet is just an external reflection of an inner psychic pollution generated by millions of unconscious individuals, without the slightest responsibility for the spaces they carry within themselves.

To love is to recognize oneself in the other.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their entire lives waiting to start living.

Why are you always anxious? Can your anxious thoughts add a single day to your lives?

The same thing that gives pleasure today will bring about suffering tomorrow, or will leave us, and that absence will cause suffering.

Recognizing the good you already have in your life is the foundation of all abundance.

Accept, then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as your choice. Always work with him, not against him.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sensory perceptions and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am conscience.

Although the body is very intelligent, it cannot differentiate between a real situation and a thought.

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

Non-resistance, non-judgment and detachment are the three aspects of true freedom and an enlightened life.

The present moment is all you have. Make now the main focus of your life.

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

The mind is an excellent tool if used well. When misused, however, it can be very destructive.