“If you both agree that the relationship will be your spiritual practice, so much the better. You can then express your thoughts… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. — 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
You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives. — 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