A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment".” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Be present as the watcher of your mind- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — 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
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,… — 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
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. — 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
