If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW?… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they… — 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
