The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The more attention you give to the past, the more you energize it, and the more likely you are to make a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn’t have or as deficient because of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Once you have reached a certain level of consciousness, (and if you are reading this, you almost certainly have), you are able… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The mind is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? It constantly projects itself into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Why is [the now] the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing. It’s all there is. The eternal present… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the… — 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
Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“These are parables not about the end of the world but about the end of psychological time. They point to the transcendence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People believe that when they say "yes" to this moment, things won't change anymore. They're afraid that if they accept what is,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, “For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing,… — 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
