Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought... — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment. — 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
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your… — 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
Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather… — 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
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason,… — 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
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,… — 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
