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
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they… — 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
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
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
What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are. — 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
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are… — 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. They pay more… — 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
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — 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
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space. — 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
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
Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not… — 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
