When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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
You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your car breaks down in the middle of the night. It's raining. It's cold. And you have to change the tire of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve… — 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
Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which… — 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