Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can… — 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
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all… — 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
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved… — 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
