If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. — 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
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out… — 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
“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
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
Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom,… — 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
What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here… — 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
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
On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“These are parables not about the end of the world but about the end of psychological time. They point to the transcendence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation… — 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
“There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise, it would not be, and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The… — 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
