Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind. — 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
Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate — 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
Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Presence is pure consciousness — consciousness that has been reclaimed from the mind, from the world of form. The inner body is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People..aggressively defend their..views, because they identify themselves with their mind..once people dis-identify themselves from the mind, they then can express their feelings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I want to know the mind of God,” Einstein said. “The rest are details.” What is the mind of God? Consciousness. What… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes, much like a light that grows brighter… — 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
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
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that all the… — 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
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
“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
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
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
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… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share