Eckhart Tolle Quotes

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

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.

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to have a lot of joy sailing around this world of yours. Don't fight the opinions of others, or waste your time arguing over these things. Follow the inward gleam of your consciousness and you will arrive.

When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.

When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.