“Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself: “I wonder what my next thought is going to be.” Then… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result… — 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
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“every time you walk up and down the stairs in your house or place of work, pay close attention to every step,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the breath of nature. You reconnect… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You are cut off from Being as long as your mind takes up all your attention. When this happens — and it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct… — 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
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW?… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it… — 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
“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
