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Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Past

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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Mistake, Moving, Past

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

Past, Mind, Painful

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

Regret, Sadness, Past

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?

Past, Ego, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Past, Self, People

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Past, Mindfulness, Absence

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.91, New World Library

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Time, Past, Missing

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

Spiritual, Past, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.60, New World Library

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

Inspirational, Life, Past

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.91, New World Library

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

Memories, Past, Giving

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.31, New World Library

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Past, Missing, Power Of Now

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Memories, Past, People

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

Past, Balance, Losing

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Past, Needs, Moments

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

Spiritual, Pain, Past

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.92, New World Library

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

Past, Stories, Moments

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

Past, Thinking, Think Of You

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.

Past, Keys, Needs

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.229, New World Library

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Past, Ego, Important

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

Past, Forgiving, Important

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.178, New World Library

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

Past, Psychological Needs, Identity

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.72, New World Library

Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.

Mean, Past, Miracle

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.180, New World Library

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Freedom, Past, Psychological Needs

To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

Past, Essence, Knowing

Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.

Past, Names, Identity

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 02, 2011

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