A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart',… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored! — 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
