Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is… — 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… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion,… — 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
If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and… — 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
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want… — 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
“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present… — 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
Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought... — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,… — 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
