Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined. — 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
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
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
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 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
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need. — 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
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
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
The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to… — 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
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
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
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation… — 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
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
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
You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found… — 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
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize… — 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
Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or… — 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
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
“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
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
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share