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
To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is… — 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
I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity… — 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
Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — 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
Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the… — 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
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
Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness.… — 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
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than… — 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
The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is -… — 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
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also,… — 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
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now… — 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
