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title: "16 Collectives Quotes By Eckhart Tolle"
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> [Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/suppression-of-the-feminine-principal-has-enabled-the-ego-to-gain/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/inherited-collective-mind-patterns-have-kept-humans-in-bondage-to/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-insanity-of-the-collective-egoic-mind-amplified-by-science-and/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/when-you-become-aware-of-silence-immediately-there-is-that-state-of/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/in-fact-the-collective-energy-field-of-presence-can-be-very-helpful/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/as-each-human-being-is-an-integral-part-of-the-collective-human/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/non-reaction-to-the-ego-in-others-is-one-of-the-most-effective-ways/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/vigilance-in-oneself-is-very-important-vigilance-means-to-be-alert-to/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/in-the-unawakened-state-you-don-t-use-thought-but-thought-uses-you/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-most-common-ego-identifications-have-to-do-with-possessions-the/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/movies-really-have-replaced-what-traditionally-were-mythologies-that/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/to-me-inner-and-outer-are-so-strongly-linked-that-any-collective/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/humanity-as-a-whole-has-already-gone-through-unimaginable-suffering/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/dogmas-are-collective-conceptual-prisons-and-the-strange-thing-is/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/look-at-all-the-conflict-between-tribes-nations-and-religions-they/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/by-far-the-greater-part-of-violence-that-humans-inflicted-on-each/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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## Other authors on Collectives

## More by Eckhart Tolle

> [“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-voice-in-the-head-that-never-stops-speaking-becomes-a/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/thinking-or-more-precisely-identification-with-thinking-gives-rise-to/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/a-powerful-spiritual-practice-is-consciously-to-allow-the/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/to-become-aware-of-the-subtlety-of-nature-you-need-to-be-alert-the/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/when-you-are-not-honoring-the-present-moment-by-allowing-it-to-be-you/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/on-a-deeper-level-you-are-already-complete-when-you-realize-that/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/life-will-give-you-whatever-experience-is-most-helpful-for-the/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/you-may-not-yet-be-able-to-bring-your-unconscious-mind-activity-into/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/war-is-a-mind-set-and-all-action-that-comes-out-of-such-a-mind-set/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/whenever-you-step-out-of-the-noise-of-thinking-that-is-meditation-and/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/get-the-inside-right-and-the-outside-will-take-care-of-itself/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/it-is-very-hard-to-tell-when-i-started-to-be-a-spiritual-teacher/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/most-people-spend-their-entire-life-imprisoned-within-the-confines-of/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/let-the-end-of-the-world-be-inside-you-then-you-don-t-need-to-fear/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

> [“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/jeste-li-zabrinuti-razmi-ljate-li-esto-to-bi-bilo-da-sam-to-zna-i-da/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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