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
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
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember… — 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
