That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW?… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose… — 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
