Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.… — 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
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche,… — 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
