Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise, it would not be, and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the breath of nature. You reconnect… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share