Persons Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

— Eckhart Tolle

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

— Eckhart Tolle

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the…

— Eckhart Tolle

The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not…

— Eckhart Tolle

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

— Eckhart Tolle

When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.

— Eckhart Tolle

...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

— Eckhart Tolle

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

— Eckhart Tolle

Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations.…

— Eckhart Tolle

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . .…

— Eckhart Tolle

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind.…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to…

— Eckhart Tolle

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside…

— Eckhart Tolle

Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious…

— Eckhart Tolle

An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want…

— Eckhart Tolle

Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

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

In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But…

— Eckhart Tolle

The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event…

— Eckhart Tolle

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng…

— Eckhart Tolle

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends…

— Eckhart Tolle

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his…

— Eckhart Tolle

Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking.…

— Eckhart Tolle

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy…

— Eckhart Tolle

A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

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

The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more…

— Eckhart Tolle

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises…

— Eckhart Tolle

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical…

— Eckhart Tolle

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything…

— Eckhart Tolle