I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or… — 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
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in… — 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
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People believe that when they say "yes" to this moment, things won't change anymore. They're afraid that if they accept what is,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only.… — 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
If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy. — 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
To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility… — 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
If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can… — 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
You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening,… — 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
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
