Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in… — 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
If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present.… — 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
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
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
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
The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned… — 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
So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of… — 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
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
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
The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do.… — 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
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
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out… — 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
Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce… — 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
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out 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
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
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
“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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
