Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns… — 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
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
When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You can take the first step right now. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned… — 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
“Can you give some more examples of ordinary unconsciousness? See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought,… — 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
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
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
Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the breath of nature. You reconnect… — 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
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
“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
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
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
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
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
“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