Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "The bedsit epiphany" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

• Is suffering really necessary?
  Yes and no.
  If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Business

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

• When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW? You will find that there is no problem NOW. A challenge that requires action, possibly, but not a problem.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Confused, Focus, Challenges

• Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

  Eckhart Tolle

  Worry, Challenges, Purpose

• To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.205, New World Library

• Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

• Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flames, People, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Aug 25, 2011

• An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, Challenges, Attention

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 01, 2010

• You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Karma, Self

• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Sleep, Challenges

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.74, New World Library

• I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, People, Challenges

• I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Meditation, Challenges, Everyday

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

• Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sleep, Challenges, Littles

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

• Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Opportunity, Challenges, Salvation

• Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Challenges, Action, Moments

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

• If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Challenges, Want

  Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.137, Penguin UK

• That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

• Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Practice, Anchors, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 01, 2011

• So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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