The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So really what it comes down to, it's God. Wherever you look, it's God appearing as this, that, that...and what you really… — 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
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People believe that when they say "yes" to this moment, things won't change anymore. They're afraid that if they accept what is,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy… — 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 you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher.… — 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
Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your… — 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
