With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are… — 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 stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“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
Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important… — 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
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your… — 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
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell… — 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