The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A Course in Miracles rightly points out that, whenever you are unhappy, there is the unconscious belief that the unhappiness “buys” you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Can you see that your unhappiness about being unhappy is just another layer of unhappiness?” She became quiet again. “I am not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It… — 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