Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need… — 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
To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be... — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Meditate or spend silent time in nature with your partner. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People are amazed to realize they can enjoy the moment rather than be stressed by it when hurrying to an appointment. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the… — 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
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
The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to… — 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
Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is… — 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… — 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
