Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Death is the stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“And then one day, you too disappear. Your armchair is still there. But instead of you sitting in it, there is just… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all events as modern culture would have you believe, but the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form… — 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
“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You don’t seek permanency where it cannot be found: in the world of form, of gain and loss, birth and death. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or… — 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
