Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
Eckhart TolleRead
When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Accepting life as it is brings inner peace and spaciousness.
Eckhart Tolle's quote emphasizes the importance of embracing the present moment and accepting reality without resistance. By saying 'yes' to life as it unfolds, we can experience a profound sense of peace and spaciousness within ourselves, allowing us to find tranquility amidst the chaos of daily life.
Themes
AcceptancePeacePresentMindfulnessSpaciousness
In practice
Example use cases
In a mindfulness workshop, to emphasize the importance of living in the present.
More from Eckhart Tolle
All quotes →Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.
Eckhart TolleRead
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
Eckhart TolleRead
Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
Eckhart TolleRead
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Eckhart TolleRead
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Eckhart TolleRead
Similar quotes
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
H. L. MenckenRead
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
ParacelsusRead
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.
Swami VivekanandaRead
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac NewtonRead
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo MachiavelliRead
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.
George William CurtisRead