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
You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found… — 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
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words… — 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
