Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — 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
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,… — 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
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
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
“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
