Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is… — 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
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
When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment. — 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
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
In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . .… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which… — 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