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
“The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot… — 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
“The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same… — 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
“In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“True love has no opposite. If your “love” has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong ego-need for a… — 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
“Forgiveness” is a term that has been in use for two thousand years, but most people have a very limited view of… — 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
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
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
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
“Complaining and reactivity are favorite mind patterns through which the ego strengthens itself. For many people, a large part of their mentalemotional… — 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
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
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Let go of excessive thinking and see how everything changes. Your relationships change because you don't demand that the other person should… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — 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
