Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought — 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
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are. — 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
“If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are thinking.” — 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
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the… — 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
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Artistic creation, sports, dance, teaching, counseling — mastery in any field of endeavor implies that the thinking mind is either no longer… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — 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
So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — 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
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now. — 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
I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — 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
“The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes, much like a light that grows brighter… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is… — 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… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that all the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I want to know the mind of God,” Einstein said. “The rest are details.” What is the mind of God? Consciousness. What… — 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
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
