“It may then seem that you had something very precious, and lost it, or your mind may convince you that it was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“inner state. You need to be extremely alert and absolutely present to be able to detect them. Whenever you do, it is… — 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
“The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately,… — 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
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is… — 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
“An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Nothing is what it seems to be. The world that you create and see through the egoic mind may seem a very… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present. — 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
“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
