And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and… — 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
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability… — 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
If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So,… — 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
