For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment. Eckhart Tolle More Quotes by Eckhart Tolle More Quotes From Eckhart Tolle I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. Eckhart Tolle truthspiritualforgotten The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are. Eckhart Tolle powerfulover-youthinking The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life. Eckhart Tolle nameslifenext-week The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world. Eckhart Tolle sunlightwholeworld In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who you are does not shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of course, your true home. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential Eckhart Tolle self-worthshininghome Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore. Eckhart Tolle teachingspiritualpeople I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it. Eckhart Tolle waitingwantsaid Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. Eckhart Tolle mindjoylove Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them. Eckhart Tolle appreciationpeoplethinking Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence. Eckhart Tolle musicmovingthinking Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and I was in a state of listening, a state of bliss as I was listening to the drama of her story, and suddenly she stopped talking and said, "Oh, you are doing healing." Eckhart Tolle healingtalkingdrama If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego. Eckhart Tolle teachingspiritualteacher Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life. Eckhart Tolle momentsmindanimal Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. Eckhart Tolle egowisdomsuffering To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet. Eckhart Tolle collectivesplanetshumans Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment. Eckhart Tolle degreesmomentsthinking Facing facts is always empowering. Eckhart Tolle empoweringfacts Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God. Eckhart Tolle fragmentsperceiveego Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle philosophicalspiritualbelieve True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need. Eckhart Tolle psychological-needsfreedompast
