Self Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

“Deny thy self!”

— Eckhart Tolle

“Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’…

— Eckhart Tolle

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

— Eckhart Tolle

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

— Eckhart Tolle

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

— Eckhart Tolle

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

— Eckhart Tolle

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.”

— Eckhart Tolle

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

— Eckhart Tolle

Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to…

— Eckhart Tolle

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

— Eckhart Tolle

Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people.…

— Eckhart Tolle

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but…

— Eckhart Tolle

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all…

— Eckhart Tolle

On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and…

— Eckhart Tolle

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in…

— Eckhart Tolle

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his…

— Eckhart Tolle

When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is…

— Eckhart Tolle

You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already…

— Eckhart Tolle

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but…

— Eckhart Tolle

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in…

— Eckhart Tolle

When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of…

— Eckhart Tolle

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and…

— Eckhart Tolle

If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a…

— Eckhart Tolle

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as…

— Eckhart Tolle

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.…

— Eckhart Tolle

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his…

— Eckhart Tolle

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