Eckhart Tolle

If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.

Eckhart Tolle

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn’t know he is dreaming.

Eckhart Tolle

If we don’t change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don’t believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.

Eckhart Tolle

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Eckhart Tolle

If you don’t mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Eckhart Tolle

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Eckhart Tolle

If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

Eckhart Tolle

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don’t demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

Eckhart Tolle

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Eckhart Tolle

In the egoic state, love gets confused with form, and so you think your love is in this form, in this other person. You don’t realize that true love is the recognition of the formless in the other – which is the recognition of yourself in the other.

Eckhart Tolle