Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word. Eckhart Tolle More Quotes by Eckhart Tolle More Quotes From Eckhart Tolle When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key. Eckhart Tolle keys past needs When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested. Eckhart Tolle philosophical mind home When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises. Eckhart Tolle arise grateful accepting Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present. Eckhart Tolle waiting mind mean Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment. Eckhart Tolle layers depth reality If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace. Eckhart Tolle pain spiritual past The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment. Eckhart Tolle present-moment moments doe Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be. Eckhart Tolle events compassion matter Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination. Eckhart Tolle hallucinations insane book Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time Eckhart Tolle learning lessons negative There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light. Eckhart Tolle true-power light evil I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. Eckhart Tolle cat meditation spiritual Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer. Eckhart Tolle yoga feelings mean Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves. Eckhart Tolle real-value real lost If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything. Eckhart Tolle taken missing mind Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. Eckhart Tolle unconscious mean reality As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. Eckhart Tolle emotional pain spiritual Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego. Eckhart Tolle ego reflection people It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it? Eckhart Tolle spiritual loss civilization The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare. Eckhart Tolle challenges dream sleep
