Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe. — 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
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You are cut off from Being as long as your mind takes up all your attention. When this happens — and it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You mean stop thinking altogether? No, I can’t, except maybe for a moment or two. Then the mind is using you. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — 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
