The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently,...
ECKHART TOLLE To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge...
ECKHART TOLLE Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your ...
ECKHART TOLLE Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
ECKHART TOLLE If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
ECKHART TOLLE Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
ECKHART TOLLE Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor...
ECKHART TOLLE Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, a...
ECKHART TOLLE What you refer to as your
ECKHART TOLLE The only thing you ever have is now.
ECKHART TOLLE People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true...
ECKHART TOLLE When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the ene...
ECKHART TOLLE If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetua...
ECKHART TOLLE As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transf...
ECKHART TOLLE The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It come...
ECKHART TOLLE Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
ECKHART TOLLE Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How ...
ECKHART TOLLE The past has no power over the present moment.
ECKHART TOLLE Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
ECKHART TOLLE Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
ECKHART TOLLE Nobody
ECKHART TOLLE The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ...
ECKHART TOLLE A beggar had been sitting by the side of the road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked b...
ECKHART TOLLE I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometim...
ECKHART TOLLE All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistan...
ECKHART TOLLE You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the s...
ECKHART TOLLE Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to sto...
ECKHART TOLLE Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let...
ECKHART TOLLE In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...
ECKHART TOLLE Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will e...
ECKHART TOLLE Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...
ECKHART TOLLE There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can ac...
ECKHART TOLLE The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive....
ECKHART TOLLE There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life...
ECKHART TOLLE Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable ...
ECKHART TOLLE Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the presen...
ECKHART TOLLE The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, becau...
ECKHART TOLLE Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation...
ECKHART TOLLE Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
ECKHART TOLLE Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, an...
ECKHART TOLLE What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, the...
ECKHART TOLLE Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next mom...
ECKHART TOLLE I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very str...
ECKHART TOLLE I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
ECKHART TOLLE It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
ECKHART TOLLE Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhap...
ECKHART TOLLE To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the...
ECKHART TOLLE Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't...
ECKHART TOLLE Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the h...
ECKHART TOLLE Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matte...
ECKHART TOLLE Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - ...
ECKHART TOLLE When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not jud...
ECKHART TOLLE All problems are illusions of the mind.
ECKHART TOLLE There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true...
ECKHART TOLLE Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
ECKHART TOLLE The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have...
ECKHART TOLLE Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you wil...
ECKHART TOLLE That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who...
ECKHART TOLLE If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let...
ECKHART TOLLE Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any...
ECKHART TOLLE To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
ECKHART TOLLE I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show t...
ECKHART TOLLE Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are rea...
ECKHART TOLLE The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future ...
ECKHART TOLLE In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmani...
ECKHART TOLLE When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except ...
ECKHART TOLLE When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - ...
ECKHART TOLLE I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
ECKHART TOLLE Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
ECKHART TOLLE ...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in w...
ECKHART TOLLE People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory ...
ECKHART TOLLE Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into ...
ECKHART TOLLE A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite ...
ECKHART TOLLE Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time b...
ECKHART TOLLE To love is to recognize yourself in another.
ECKHART TOLLE Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don'...
ECKHART TOLLE The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLE See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find y...
ECKHART TOLLE It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
ECKHART TOLLE Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation...
ECKHART TOLLE The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep do...
ECKHART TOLLE Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thin...
ECKHART TOLLE The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
ECKHART TOLLE Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
ECKHART TOLLE In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other...
ECKHART TOLLE People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed ...
ECKHART TOLLE Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
ECKHART TOLLE We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external th...
ECKHART TOLLE To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind ...
ECKHART TOLLE Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as...
ECKHART TOLLE You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you,...
ECKHART TOLLE Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
ECKHART TOLLE You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than ...
ECKHART TOLLE every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.
ECKHART TOLLE It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disin...
ECKHART TOLLE You have so much to learn from your enemies.
ECKHART TOLLE Become conscious of being conscious.
ECKHART TOLLE You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a...
ECKHART TOLLE Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
ECKHART TOLLE Man made God in his own image...
ECKHART TOLLE Whenever you
become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight
ECKHART TOLLE This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
ECKHART TOLLE Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to...
ECKHART TOLLE When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...
ECKHART TOLLE Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
ECKHART TOLLE Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happin...
ECKHART TOLLE Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
ECKHART TOLLE What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one...
ECKHART TOLLE Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic livi...
ECKHART TOLLE You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you,...
ECKHART TOLLE You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
ECKHART TOLLE Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
ECKHART TOLLE Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
ECKHART TOLLE Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cel...
ECKHART TOLLE Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.
ECKHART TOLLE All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease,...
ECKHART TOLLE Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of cons...
ECKHART TOLLE The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you ...
ECKHART TOLLE The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence o...
ECKHART TOLLE If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary ...
ECKHART TOLLE Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your ...
ECKHART TOLLE As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to f...
ECKHART TOLLE « Une situation a besoin d'être acceptée telle quelle ou d'être solutionnée. »
ECKHART TOLLE If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same wor...
ECKHART TOLLE Lorsque la confusion règne, il est facile de se rappeler cette vérité : Je ne suis ni mes pensée...
ECKHART TOLLE Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in y...
ECKHART TOLLE When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion...
ECKHART TOLLE Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.
ECKHART TOLLE When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f...
ECKHART TOLLE Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being ...
ECKHART TOLLE Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situat...
ECKHART TOLLE Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.
ECKHART TOLLE True Power is within, and it is available now.
ECKHART TOLLE All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and a...
ECKHART TOLLE Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about...
ECKHART TOLLE Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create i...
ECKHART TOLLE First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for chang...
ECKHART TOLLE All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
ECKHART TOLLE Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
ECKHART TOLLE Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist...
ECKHART TOLLE Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the...
ECKHART TOLLE For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the onl...
ECKHART TOLLE If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that...
ECKHART TOLLE When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each o...
ECKHART TOLLE You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind ...
ECKHART TOLLE When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more co...
ECKHART TOLLE ◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is
ECKHART TOLLE Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but co...
ECKHART TOLLE Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ...
ECKHART TOLLE The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of
unconscious res...
ECKHART TOLLE Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always...
ECKHART TOLLE The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they c...
ECKHART TOLLE Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. D...
ECKHART TOLLE Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them f...
ECKHART TOLLE Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to ...
ECKHART TOLLE Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply...
ECKHART TOLLE Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are ta...
ECKHART TOLLE Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it...
ECKHART TOLLE What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
ECKHART TOLLE Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person sp...
ECKHART TOLLE Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...
ECKHART TOLLE Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ...
ECKHART TOLLE Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
ECKHART TOLLE Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionall...
ECKHART TOLLE Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will fin...
ECKHART TOLLE You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at th...
ECKHART TOLLE Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...
ECKHART TOLLE Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a prob...
ECKHART TOLLE I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're...
ECKHART TOLLE Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is no...
ECKHART TOLLE The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...
ECKHART TOLLE When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your...
ECKHART TOLLE Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
ECKHART TOLLE Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
ECKHART TOLLE Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose
ECKHART TOLLE Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still...
ECKHART TOLLE Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.
ECKHART TOLLE The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the ...
ECKHART TOLLE Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
ECKHART TOLLE So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they negl...
ECKHART TOLLE Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It ...
ECKHART TOLLE You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
ECKHART TOLLE When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.
ECKHART TOLLE This is most people’s reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compar...
ECKHART TOLLE This, too, will pass.
ECKHART TOLLE The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the though...
ECKHART TOLLE What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation tha...
ECKHART TOLLE Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakab...
ECKHART TOLLE Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- ...
ECKHART TOLLE The launch of Lycos Games is another step toward providing customers access to exclusive content lik...
ALFRED TOLLE It's not that nobody's using Lycos anymore. The awareness of the brand is still there. But awareness...
ALFRED TOLLE The launch of Lycos Games is another step toward providing consumers access to exclusive content lik...
ALFRED TOLLE We want to become a destination for content producers and consumers -- especially user-generated con...
ALFRED TOLLE The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
MEISTER ECKHART You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
MEISTER ECKHART He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author's intention. It's his movie. He's the man in it.
AARON ECKHART I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subject...
AARON ECKHART Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. ...
AARON ECKHART All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ......
AARON ECKHART For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way....
AARON ECKHART