Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.

Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego. Then a deep ecstasy will happen between you and your master. Wherever there is a 'let-go', ecstasy happens - that is the law.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.