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
When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is… — 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
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
“Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It is no so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a… — 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
For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is… — 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
The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a… — 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
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
“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the… — 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. You don't want… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“demanding recognition for something you did and getting angry or upset if you don’t get it; trying to get attention by talking… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the “fault” that you perceive in another isn’t even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep-seated sense of lack or… — 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
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
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
“draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. — 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
