You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion,… — 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
You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — 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
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening,… — 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
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,… — 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
