The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
- Topic: Desire
More Quotes from Eckhart Tolle
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
More on Desire
The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.
No matter who you are or what your position you must keeping fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
Desire is the essence of a man.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.
