I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with… — 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
“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell… — 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