Quotes from the book "The Power of Now" By Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment.  Reading this book gives you insights into how to achieve inner peace. Here are some quotes that hit me.

Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment is "The end of suffering"

It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease.

Can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the "off" button?

Compulsive thinking is actually an addiction.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are in your mind.

Emotion: The body's reaction to your mind.

Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment?

Am I at ease at this moment? is a good question to ask yourself frequently. 

There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain is what you need to do.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death.

Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and the mind stops - unless you choose to use it.

The mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you.

Outer riches and inner poverty or to "gain the world and lose your soul.

Be as present as you can. The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

As long as you are run by the egoic mind, you are part of the collective insanity.

You cannot stop thinking.  Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease.

Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating.

If your "love" has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong ego need for a more complete and deeper sense of self.

Allow the noise, or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. Let everything pass through you.

Your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness.

Become an alchemist, Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Happy reading !!!