Attention Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

“Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

— Eckhart Tolle

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

— Eckhart Tolle

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

— Eckhart Tolle

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of…

— Eckhart Tolle

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

— Eckhart Tolle

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

— Eckhart Tolle

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

— Eckhart Tolle

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner…

— Eckhart Tolle

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result…

— Eckhart Tolle

Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not…

— Eckhart Tolle

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness…

— Eckhart Tolle

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine,…

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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

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but…

— Eckhart Tolle

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of…

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Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the…

— Eckhart Tolle

When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it.…

— Eckhart Tolle

Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the breath of nature. You reconnect…

— Eckhart Tolle

An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose…

— Eckhart Tolle

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct…

— Eckhart Tolle

Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds.…

— Eckhart Tolle

So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be…

— Eckhart Tolle

Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it…

— Eckhart Tolle

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more…

— Eckhart Tolle

Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine…

— Eckhart Tolle

Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.

— Eckhart Tolle

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

— Eckhart Tolle

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never…

— Eckhart Tolle

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still.…

— Eckhart Tolle

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most…

— Eckhart Tolle

When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of…

— Eckhart Tolle

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises…

— Eckhart Tolle

Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your…

— Eckhart Tolle