Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within. — 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
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and… — 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… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is… — 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
You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness… — 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
It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform… — 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
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
Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A life changing event comes when we are not looking.Inspired and blessed are we by the presence of Eckart Tolle among us.Thank… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,… — 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
“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
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only… — 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
