This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body… — 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
Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People..aggressively defend their..views, because they identify themselves with their mind..once people dis-identify themselves from the mind, they then can express their feelings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your… — 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… — 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
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and… — 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
The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your… — 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
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — 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
“Get in touch with the energy field of the inner body, be intensely present, disidentify from the mind, surrender to what is;… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No… — 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
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux,… — 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
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no… — 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
If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In the timeless realm where God dwells, which is also your home, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a… — 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
If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not… — 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
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
“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
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
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
