Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“How easy it is for people to become trapped in their conceptual prisons. The human mind, in its desire to know, understand,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You are a human mind again, pretending to be a human being, interacting with another mind, playing a drama called “love.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In the timeless realm where God dwells, which is also your home, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega,… — 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