“So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence. — 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
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You have a name, a past, a life situation, a future. But in one essential respect, you are not the same person… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. — 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
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from… — 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
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and… — 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
Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the… — 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
“What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called… — 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
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises,… — 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
When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over… — 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
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in… — 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
