You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person. Eckhart Tolle More Quotes by Eckhart Tolle More Quotes From Eckhart Tolle Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. Eckhart Tolle enlightenment judgement three The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. Eckhart Tolle technology spiritual art 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-up struggle mean 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 challenges want people 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 ego mind animal 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 connections animal thinking 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 form opportunity mean 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 real spiritual fear 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 incessant spiritual thinking The flower of # consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows. Eckhart Tolle mud flower needs If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy. Eckhart Tolle unhappy believe people 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 breathing gratitude body 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 oneness spiritual love-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 silly mean children 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 spiritual inspirational life If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life. Eckhart Tolle powerful motivational inspirational When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore. Eckhart Tolle conscious doe drama 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 forgiveness suffering people 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 pain body identity
