There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling… — 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
When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises, — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or… — 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
If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices: 1-Totally accept it. 2- Change it. 3-Remove myself from the situation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation. — 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
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship… — 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