Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes… — 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
