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
“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
“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
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
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
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
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“To become conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When you listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. Do not judge or condemn… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — 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
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
For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can… — 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