When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . .… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there… — 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
Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng… — 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
When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside… — 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
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event… — 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
True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises… — 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
The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more… — 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
“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
