Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a… — 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
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
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the… — 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
Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the… — 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
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in… — 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
