The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness.… — 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
Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming. — 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