Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.… — 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
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't… — 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
I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. — 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
To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought… — 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
