To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred,… — 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
Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather… — 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
“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
