Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant, or awful.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When you live through the ego, you always reduce the present moment to a means to an end. You live for the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment".” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn’t a problem. The mind didn’t have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Doing one thing at a time” is how one Zen Master defined the essence of Zen. Doing one thing at a time… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself. — 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
