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
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
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
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 essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why… — 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
Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no… — 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
Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes.Bring a 'yes'… — 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
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
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
Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being. — 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
In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no… — 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
I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, 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
