“I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped. I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts.… — 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
The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“in it. It means consciousness is lost in its own dream. You get taken in by every thought, every emotion,” — 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
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
“More consciousness means a lessening of the illusion of materiality.” — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree. When you have a thought or feeling, you are aware… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness.… — 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
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
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now… — 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
“You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions.” — 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
