Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is… — 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… — 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
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
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we… — 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
Being rich/wealthy is being in touch with the fullness of life. When you are open to the present moment, what comes in,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. — 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
