--- title: "4 Mental Quotes By Eckhart Tolle" description: "4 Mental quotes by Eckhart Tolle. Plus more from Eckhart Tolle and more Mental sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/eckhart-tolle-81_able_not-to-be-able-to-stop-thinking-is-a-dre_810512.jpg" --- > [Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/not-to-be-able-to-stop-thinking-is-a-dreadful-affliction-but-we-don-t-2/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/eckhart-tolle-81_able_not-to-be-able-to-stop-thinking-is-a-dre_810512.jpg) > [Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/enthusiasm-is-the-power-that-transfers-the-mental-blueprint-into-the/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff7/eckhart-tolle-81_blueprints_enthusiasm-is-the-power-that-transfers-t_2272289.jpg) > [Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/do-you-really-need-to-mentally-label-every-sense-perception-and/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b51/eckhart-tolle-81_allowing_do-you-really-need-to-mentally-label-eve_2326354.jpg) > [The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-moment-you-put-a-mental-label-on-another-human-being-you-can-no/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caf/eckhart-tolle-81_acts-of-violence_the-moment-you-put-a-mental-label-on-ano_2820707.jpg) ## Other authors on Mental ## More by Eckhart Tolle > [“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-voice-in-the-head-that-never-stops-speaking-becomes-a/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/thinking-or-more-precisely-identification-with-thinking-gives-rise-to/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/a-powerful-spiritual-practice-is-consciously-to-allow-the/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/to-become-aware-of-the-subtlety-of-nature-you-need-to-be-alert-the/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/when-you-are-not-honoring-the-present-moment-by-allowing-it-to-be-you/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/on-a-deeper-level-you-are-already-complete-when-you-realize-that/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/life-will-give-you-whatever-experience-is-most-helpful-for-the/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/you-may-not-yet-be-able-to-bring-your-unconscious-mind-activity-into/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/war-is-a-mind-set-and-all-action-that-comes-out-of-such-a-mind-set/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/whenever-you-step-out-of-the-noise-of-thinking-that-is-meditation-and/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/get-the-inside-right-and-the-outside-will-take-care-of-itself/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/it-is-very-hard-to-tell-when-i-started-to-be-a-spiritual-teacher/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/most-people-spend-their-entire-life-imprisoned-within-the-confines-of/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/let-the-end-of-the-world-be-inside-you-then-you-don-t-need-to-fear/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) > [“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/jeste-li-zabrinuti-razmi-ljate-li-esto-to-bi-bilo-da-sam-to-zna-i-da/) [Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental/eckhart-tolle/#itemlist", "name": "4 Mental Quotes By Eckhart Tolle", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eckhart Tolle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/not-to-be-able-to-stop-thinking-is-a-dreadful-affliction-but-we-don-t-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/eckhart-tolle-81_able_not-to-be-able-to-stop-thinking-is-a-dre_810512.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/eckhart-tolle-81_able_not-to-be-able-to-stop-thinking-is-a-dre_810512.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/eckhart-tolle-81_able_not-to-be-able-to-stop-thinking-is-a-dre_810512.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone…” — Eckhart Tolle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eckhart Tolle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/enthusiasm-is-the-power-that-transfers-the-mental-blueprint-into-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff7/eckhart-tolle-81_blueprints_enthusiasm-is-the-power-that-transfers-t_2272289.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff7/eckhart-tolle-81_blueprints_enthusiasm-is-the-power-that-transfers-t_2272289.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff7/eckhart-tolle-81_blueprints_enthusiasm-is-the-power-that-transfers-t_2272289.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.” — Eckhart Tolle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eckhart Tolle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/do-you-really-need-to-mentally-label-every-sense-perception-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b51/eckhart-tolle-81_allowing_do-you-really-need-to-mentally-label-eve_2326354.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b51/eckhart-tolle-81_allowing_do-you-really-need-to-mentally-label-eve_2326354.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b51/eckhart-tolle-81_allowing_do-you-really-need-to-mentally-label-eve_2326354.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a…” — Eckhart Tolle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eckhart Tolle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-moment-you-put-a-mental-label-on-another-human-being-you-can-no/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caf/eckhart-tolle-81_acts-of-violence_the-moment-you-put-a-mental-label-on-ano_2820707.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caf/eckhart-tolle-81_acts-of-violence_the-moment-you-put-a-mental-label-on-ano_2820707.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caf/eckhart-tolle-81_acts-of-violence_the-moment-you-put-a-mental-label-on-ano_2820707.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person…” — Eckhart Tolle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental/eckhart-tolle/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental/eckhart-tolle/", "name": "Mental Quotes by Eckhart Tolle", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental/eckhart-tolle/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/eckhart-tolle-81_able_not-to-be-able-to-stop-thinking-is-a-dre_810512.jpg" }, "description": "4 Mental quotes by Eckhart Tolle. Plus more from Eckhart Tolle and more Mental sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental/eckhart-tolle/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental/eckhart-tolle/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Mental", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Eckhart Tolle", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental/eckhart-tolle/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```