“What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I want to know the mind of God,” Einstein said. “The rest are details.” What is the mind of God? Consciousness. What… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the “fault” that you perceive in another isn’t even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It is not true that the up cycle is good and the down cycle bad, except in the mind’s judgment. Growth is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Become at ease with the state of “not knowing.” This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep-seated sense of lack or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You are cut off from Being as long as your mind takes up all your attention. When this happens — and it… — 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
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can… — 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
