As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.… — 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
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and… — 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
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