“Nonreaction 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
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on… — 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
