Eckhart Tolle Quotes

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

I don't think the way I look at myself has changed.

Our deep desires define us, really.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

I'm not what I make.