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
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
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
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
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
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
When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no… — 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
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
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
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
Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at… — 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
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 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
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
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper. — 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
Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind.… — 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
