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
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
“Why is [the now] the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing. It’s all there is. The eternal present… — 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
When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing… — 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
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love. — 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
Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. — 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
“How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the… — 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
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. — 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
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life. — 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
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
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your… — 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