Eckhart Tolle Quotes

I'm kind of arrogant and cocky when I play... It's kind of weird. It's like I have split personalities.

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

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

The only person you resent is yourself.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

↑ top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.