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
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction.… — 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
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and… — 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
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level. The power of the heart… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more… — 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