“You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking… — 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
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness. — 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
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
Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Thinking that is not rooted in awareness becomes self-serving and dysfunctional. Cleverness devoid of wisdom is extremely dangerous and destructive. That is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“All that is required to become free of the ego is to be aware of it, since awareness and ego are incompatible” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness. — 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
“awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree. When you have a thought or feeling, you are aware… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions.” — 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
