Giving Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

— Eckhart Tolle

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

— Eckhart Tolle

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

— Eckhart Tolle

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought...

— Eckhart Tolle

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

— Eckhart Tolle

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

— Eckhart Tolle

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

— Eckhart Tolle

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through…

— Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

— Eckhart Tolle

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of…

— Eckhart Tolle

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present…

— Eckhart Tolle

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

— Eckhart Tolle

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

— Eckhart Tolle

Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or…

— Eckhart Tolle

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you…

— Eckhart Tolle

If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion,…

— Eckhart Tolle

In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present.…

— Eckhart Tolle

The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building…

— Eckhart Tolle

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense…

— Eckhart Tolle

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and…

— Eckhart Tolle

There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling…

— Eckhart Tolle

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is…

— Eckhart Tolle

The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have…

— Eckhart Tolle

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,…

— Eckhart Tolle

A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to…

— Eckhart Tolle

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.…

— Eckhart Tolle

So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be…

— Eckhart Tolle

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned…

— Eckhart Tolle

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”…

— Eckhart Tolle

Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the…

— Eckhart Tolle

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of…

— Eckhart Tolle

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous…

— Eckhart Tolle

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result…

— Eckhart Tolle

Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling…

— Eckhart Tolle

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness…

— Eckhart Tolle

It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places…

— Eckhart Tolle

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you…

— Eckhart Tolle

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything…

— Eckhart Tolle