People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds, while you were completely present, was that beauty or that… — 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
“The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Nothing is what it seems to be. The world that you create and see through the egoic mind may seem a very… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling… — 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
Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if… — 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
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — 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
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — 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
“Artistic creation, sports, dance, teaching, counseling — mastery in any field of endeavor implies that the thinking mind is either no longer… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves… — 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
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You are a human mind again, pretending to be a human being, interacting with another mind, playing a drama called “love.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating suffering for others too. These unconscious mind… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“inner state. You need to be extremely alert and absolutely present to be able to detect them. Whenever you do, it is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn’t a problem. The mind didn’t have… — 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
