People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment. — 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
When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world. — 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
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious… — 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
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. — 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