Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“For love to flourish, the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You mean stop thinking altogether? No, I can’t, except maybe for a moment or two. Then the mind is using you. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When I obtain this or am free of that — then I will be okay.” This is the unconscious mind-set that creates… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are… — 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
