Eckhart Tolle Quotes

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you are - but you don't have any notion of being an ego, of being an I. In other words: the more you think you are, the less you are; the more you experience that you are not... the more you are.