Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged,… — 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
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
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought… — 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
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start… — 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
