Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The world as it appears to us now is, as I said, largely a reflection of the egoic mind. Fear being an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense… — 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
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Mind, in the way I use the word, is not just thought. It includes your emotions as well as all unconscious mental-emotional… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is… — 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
“I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped. I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You don’t need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and… — 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