Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Can you give some more examples of ordinary unconsciousness? See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought,… — 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
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“How dare you serve me cold soup….” That’s complaining. There is a “me” here that loves to feel personally offended by the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power. — 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
