Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — 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
