Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say,… — 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
