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
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
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought — 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
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. — 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
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so… — 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
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
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is… — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it… — 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
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to… — 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
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't 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
