Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.” — 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
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there… — 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
In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already… — 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
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but… — 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
Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought… — 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
