The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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 Image