“When you pronounce judgment upon someone, you confuse those conditioned mind patterns with who they are.”

— Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch. 8

About Eckhart Tolle

Born 1948

German-born spiritual teacher, author of "The Power of Now".

“Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past.”

“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.”

“The child has a deep longing for the parent to be there as a human being, not as a role.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”