Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner… — 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
The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they… — 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… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have,… — 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
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a… — 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
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
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced… — 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
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Jeste li zabrinuti? Razmišljate li često: »Što bi bilo da sam...?« To znači da ste se poistovjetili s umom, koji se projicira u neku… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
![“If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.” quote by Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bfc/eckhart-tolle-81_acquaintance_if-you-have-a-strong-ego-and-something-g_1056270.jpg)
