every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive,… — 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
Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in… — 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
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
“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
