Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that… — 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
