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
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours";… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they… — 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
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in… — 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
When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your… — 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
Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — 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
