When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.… — 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
