Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as… — 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
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — 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
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability… — 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
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
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
Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realize that having a belief system—a set of thoughts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment".” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being. — 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
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the… — 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
