Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Thinking that is not rooted in awareness becomes self-serving and dysfunctional. Cleverness devoid of wisdom is extremely dangerous and destructive. That is… — 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
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
Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every… — 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
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
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
When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness.… — 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
“Mind, in the way I use the word, is not just thought. It includes your emotions as well as all unconscious mental-emotional… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as… — 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
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
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship… — 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
“By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought… — 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
