Eckhart Tolle Quotes

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

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

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

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

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

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

It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once?

This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you; a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions: one dimension is happiness; another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you: the third dimension, witnessing, sakshin.

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