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
The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in… — 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
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
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
Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you… — 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
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
In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People..aggressively defend their..views, because they identify themselves with their mind..once people dis-identify themselves from the mind, they then can express their feelings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Complaining and reactivity are favorite mind patterns through which the ego strengthens itself. For many people, a large part of their mentalemotional… — 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
