You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles… — 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
