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
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
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified… — 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
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher;… — 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
For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
