“The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“long as they are their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The world as it appears to us now is, as I said, largely a reflection of the egoic mind. Fear being an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don’t want the present.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with… — 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
“psychological time, which is the mind’s deep-seated habit of seeking the fullness of life in the future where it cannot be found… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least… — 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
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped. I was fully conscious, but there were no more 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
“To become 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
“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
“In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It may then seem that you had something very precious, and lost it, or your mind may convince you that it was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is… — 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
Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought... — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“the moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind.” — 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
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
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
“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
