Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people.… — 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
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours";… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and… — 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
After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be… — 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
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not… — 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
