It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and… — 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
