Eckhart Tolle Knowing Quotations

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.