Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have. — 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
Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another. — 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
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only.… — 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
Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored! — 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
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
People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself… — 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
“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
