The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an… — 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
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
When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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
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
Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And… — 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
