Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness. — 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
The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices: 1-Totally accept it. 2- Change it. 3-Remove myself from the situation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to… — 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
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“psychological time, which is the mind’s deep-seated habit of seeking the fullness of life in the future where it cannot be found… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely,… — 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