I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I sometimes say to people, "I am a window frame - no more. The window frame is not that important. What is… — 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
I have spoken to many people who have begun to live in presence, and they find many changes come into their lives.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People believe that when they say "yes" to this moment, things won't change anymore. They're afraid that if they accept what is,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego.… — 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
Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything… — 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
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — 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
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart',… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who… — 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
