Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Waiting, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.87, New World Library

• It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Waiting

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.86, New World Library

• You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

  Eckhart Tolle

  Yoga, Waiting, Done

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Dec 29, 2010

• Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Positive, Believe, Positivity

  Twitter post from May 05, 2011

• You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Meaningful, Joy, Waiting

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.179, Penguin

• Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Waiting, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.86, New World Library

• When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Coffee, Opportunity, Thinking

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

• So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Sorry, Waiting

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.87, New World Library

• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Successful, Waiting, Moments

  "Thriving in the Now with Arianna Huffington and Eckhart Tolle" by Suza Scalora, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2014.

• The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Waiting, Ego, Misery

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

• Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Waiting, Mind, Quality

• I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Waiting, Want, Said

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". Awaken interview, www.awaken.com. January 7, 2014.

• The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Reality, Giving

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

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