Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. 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 keyspastneeds 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 philosophicalmindhome When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises. Eckhart Tolle arisegratefulaccepting 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 waitingmindmean 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 layersdepthreality 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 painspiritualpast The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment. Eckhart Tolle present-momentmomentsdoe Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be. Eckhart Tolle eventscompassionmatter 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 hallucinationsinsanebook 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 learninglessonsnegative 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-powerlightevil I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. Eckhart Tolle catmeditationspiritual 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 yogafeelingsmean Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves. Eckhart Tolle real-valuereallost 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 takenmissingmind 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 emotionalpainspiritual 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 egoreflectionpeople 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 spirituallosscivilization 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 challengesdreamsleep Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species. Eckhart Tolle evolutionawakeningprocess
