Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“This is most people’s reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to… — 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
If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes… — 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
