In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being. — 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 greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Be present as the watcher of your mind- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. — 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
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
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose… — 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
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — 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
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — 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
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
For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — 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
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously. — 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
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment".” — 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
... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other. — 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
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
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — 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
“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
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
“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
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
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
