Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought... — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Just because you can solve a crossword puzzle or build an atom bomb doesn’t mean that you use your mind. Just as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more… — 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 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
“What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of… — 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 listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your… — 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
My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment… — 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
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
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the… — 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
