For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous… — 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
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
The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment. — 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
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
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
I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes… — 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
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
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them. — 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
People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence. — 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
People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy… — 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
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
I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore". — 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
