True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live… — 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
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
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
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
Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this,… — 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
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
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
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
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realize that having a belief system—a set of thoughts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but… — 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
“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
