When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You can take the first step right now. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out… — 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
