Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So… — 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
“The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is.… — 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
