Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of… — 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
Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And… — 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 difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. — 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