For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — 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
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
Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness.… — 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
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — 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
