Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

I am someone without an ego.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

To surrender your ego, you have to have one first.

The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego itself is a perfect manifestation of the Divine, and it is best handled by resting in Freedom, not by trying to get rid of it, which simply increases the effort of the ego itself

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is awareness, watchfulness. The only thing that is not part of the world of action is pure awareness. No shadow is created by pure awareness. It is so pure that light can pass through it - it is transparent and no shadow is created.

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

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.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

I never took myself too seriously.