A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind-dominated religions, although the institutionalized… — 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
When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest… — 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… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart',… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realize that having a belief system—a set of thoughts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“And so religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and… — 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
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss… — 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
“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When I occasionally quote the words of Jesus or the Buddha, from A Course in Miracles or from other teachings, I do… — 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… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If you both agree that the relationship will be your spiritual practice, so much the better. You can then express your thoughts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because… — 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
