An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or… — 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 difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened." — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — 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
