Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. Eckhart Tolle More Quotes by Eckhart Tolle More Quotes From Eckhart Tolle The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. Eckhart Tolle technologyspiritualart There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. Eckhart Tolle giving-upstrugglemean If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it. Eckhart Tolle challengeswantpeople I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation. Eckhart Tolle egomindanimal The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection. Eckhart Tolle connectionsanimalthinking When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form. Eckhart Tolle formopportunitymean Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. Eckhart Tolle realspiritualfear It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists. Eckhart Tolle incessantspiritualthinking The flower of # consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows. Eckhart Tolle mudflowerneeds If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy. Eckhart Tolle unhappybelievepeople When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment. Eckhart Tolle breathinggratitudebody So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle onenessspirituallove-is Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now. Eckhart Tolle keys Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child. They don't treat the child as an equal. The fact that you temporarily know more, or you're bigger does not mean the child is not your equal. Eckhart Tolle sillymeanchildren To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now Eckhart Tolle spiritualinspirationallife If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life. Eckhart Tolle powerfulmotivationalinspirational When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore. Eckhart Tolle consciousdoedrama It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive. Eckhart Tolle forgivenesssufferingpeople The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it. Eckhart Tolle painbodyidentity Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. Eckhart Tolle shiningessenceinspirational
