Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain,… — 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
You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of… — 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
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“For love to flourish, the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over… — 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
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
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — 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
