--- title: "6 Connected Quotes By Eckhart Tolle" description: "6 Connected quotes by Eckhart Tolle. Plus more from Eckhart Tolle and more Connected sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07b/eckhart-tolle-81_animal_thought-subsides-when-you-pet-your-dog-o_154851.jpg" --- > [Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/thought-subsides-when-you-pet-your-dog-or-you-have-a-purring-cat-on/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07b/eckhart-tolle-81_animal_thought-subsides-when-you-pet-your-dog-o_154851.jpg) > [I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/i-feel-that-i-need-to-return-to-the-pure-stillness-periodically-and/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/eckhart-tolle-81_arise_i-feel-that-i-need-to-return-to-the-pure_774791.jpg) > [The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-atoms-that-make-up-your-body-were-once-forged-inside-stars-and/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/eckhart-tolle-81_astronomy_the-atoms-that-make-up-your-body-were-on_2404846.jpg) > [The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level. The power of the heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-the-heart-is-to-be-connected-with-who-you-are-at-the/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/053/eckhart-tolle-81_connected_the-power-of-the-heart-is-to-be-connecte_2579318.jpg) > [Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/everything-a-bird-a-tree-even-a-simple-stone-and-certainly-a-human/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65a/eckhart-tolle-81_appearance_everything-a-bird-a-tree-even-a-simple-s_2640472.jpg) > [Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/make-sure-your-goals-are-dynamic-that-is-to-say-point-toward-an/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b10/eckhart-tolle-81_activity_make-sure-your-goals-are-dynamic-that-is_3221425.jpg) ## Other authors on Connected ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/connected/eckhart-tolle/#itemlist", "name": "6 Connected Quotes By Eckhart Tolle", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. 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