“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly – you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.”~ The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now

With everything that is constantly happening in the world, it can be quite challenging not to get caught up in the vicious cycle of worrying, overthinking, and even stressing over elements that are out of your control. Thus, you start to focus more and more on what other terrible things tomorrow might bring, and lose sight of the most important thing you’ll ever have: the generous present moment.

When this happens, what better tool to use if not the timeless wisdom shared by Eckhart Tolle in his life-changing book, The Power of Now?

Allow his words to guide you back to the unfathomable peace, joy, and clarity that come with anchoring yourself into the beautiful NOW.

45 The Power of Now Quotes to Keep You Anchored into The Generous Present Moment

On Welcoming Change

“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.”~ The Power of Now

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”~ The Power of Now

“The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life’s challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.”

“Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.”~ The Power of Now

“Stop looking at the scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”~ The Power of Now

“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.”~ The Power of Now

“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.”

“There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain – this is what I want to talk about now.”~ The Power of Now

“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are cause by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”~ The Power of Now

On Love and Relationships

“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the “love” of ego. However, 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 with him or her.

The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs.”

“Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”~ The Power of Now

“Real love doesn’t make you suffer. How could it? It doesn’t suddenly turn into hate, nor does real joy turn into pain. …even before you are enlightened – before you have freed yourself from your mind – you may get glimpses of true joy, true love, or of a deep inner peace, still but vibrantly alive.”~ The Power of Now

“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.”~ The Power of Now

“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”- ~ The Power of Now

“… after the initial euphoria has passed, there is so much unhappiness, so much pain in intimate relationships. They do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you.”~ The Power of Now

On Being Fully Present

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”~ The Power of Now

“Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.”~ The Power of Now

“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.”~ The Power of Now

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”~ The Power of Now

“Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”~ The Power of Now

“There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.”~ The Power of Now

“When you listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. Do not judge or condemn what you hear, for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door. You’ll soon realize: there is the voice and here I am listening to it, watching it. This ‘I am’ realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.”

On Knowing Your Self

“The sooner your realize that your outer purpose cannot give you lasting fulfillment, the better. When you have seen the limitations of your outer purpose, you give up your unrealistic expectation that it should make you happy, and you make it subservient to your inner purpose.”

“Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.”~ The Power of Now

“To watch an emotion in this way is basically the same as listening to or watching a thought, which I described earlier. The only difference is that, while a thought is in your head, an emotion has a strong physical component and so is primarily felt in the body.

You can then allow the emotion to be there without being controlled by it.You no longer are the emotion; you are the watcher, the observing presence. If you practice this, all that is unconscious in you will be brought into the light of consciousness.”

“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.”~ The Power of Now

“Make it a habit to ask yourself: What’s going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don’t analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.”

“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”~ The Power of Now

“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you.”

“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”~ The Power of Now

“Acknowledging the good you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”~ The Power of Now

“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. Not the ultimate truth of who you are, but the relative truth of your state of mind at the time.”~ The Power of Now

On Letting Go

“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity – the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. The moment you you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.

You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”

“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.”~ The Power of Now

“If you suddenly feel very light, clear, and deeply at peace, that is an unmistakable sign that you have truly surrendered.”~ The Power of Now

“The more you are identified with your thinking, your likes and dislikes, judgments and interpretations, which is to say the less present you are as the watching consciousness, the stronger the emotional energy charge will be, whether you are aware of it or not.”~ The Power of Now

“It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept – before they will forgive.”~ The Power of Now

“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”~ The Power of Now

“When you create a problem, you create pain. All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself… You also no longer contaminate the beautiful Earth, your inner space, and the collective human psyche with the negativity of problem making.”

“If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom.”~ The Power of Now

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”~ The Power of Now

“Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body’s reaction to your mind — or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.”~ The Power of Now

“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”~ The Power of Now

“People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.”~ The Power of Now

“Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It’s about realizing that there are no problems. Only situations — to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as parts of the “isness” of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with. Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot survive in the actuality of the Now.”

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