My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality… — 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
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the… — 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
The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . .… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep… — 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
