Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware… — 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
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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
Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself. — 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
All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have spoken to many people who have begun to live in presence, and they find many changes come into their lives.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is… — 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