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
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present… — 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
On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the… — 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
And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream,… — 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
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
To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is… — 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
