“You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.” ~Source: The Power of Now : A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Page: 75
“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.'”
“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it – who are you?” ~Source: The Power of Now : A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.” ~Source: The Power of Now : A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Page: 131
“Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”
~ Source: The Power of Now : A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Page: 64
“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. ” ~Source: The Power of Now : A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Page: 27
“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.”
Source of the above quotes : Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
