Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate… — 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
Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation,… — 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 experiment with this from time to time. For example, when someone criticizes you, blames you, or calls you names, instead of immediately retaliating or defending yourself – do nothing. Allow the self-image to remain diminished and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share
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
