The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be 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
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space. — 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
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your… — 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
“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