It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are… — 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 ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want… — 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
