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
I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher;… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.… — 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
