True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called… — 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
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his… — 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