Thinking Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

— Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

— Eckhart Tolle

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

— Eckhart Tolle

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

— Eckhart Tolle

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

— Eckhart Tolle

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

— Eckhart Tolle

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

— Eckhart Tolle

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

— Eckhart Tolle

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

— Eckhart Tolle

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a…

— Eckhart Tolle

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

— Eckhart Tolle

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging…

— Eckhart Tolle

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

— Eckhart Tolle

Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen…

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The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we…

— Eckhart Tolle

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually…

— Eckhart Tolle

“About 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often…

— Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware…

— Eckhart Tolle

Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious…

— Eckhart Tolle

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from…

— Eckhart Tolle

Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your…

— Eckhart Tolle

Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within…

— Eckhart Tolle

When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to…

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Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more…

— Eckhart Tolle

“What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember…

— Eckhart Tolle

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."…

— Eckhart Tolle

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is…

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Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict…

— Eckhart Tolle

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your…

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For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity…

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True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises…

— Eckhart Tolle

“If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are thinking.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

— Eckhart Tolle

Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

— Eckhart Tolle

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

— Eckhart Tolle

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

— Eckhart Tolle

You create a good future by creating a good present.

— Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

— Eckhart Tolle

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

— Eckhart Tolle