Eckhart Tolle

What is commonly called ‘falling in love’ is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

Eckhart Tolle

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Eckhart Tolle

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

Eckhart Tolle

When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

Eckhart Tolle

When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.

Eckhart Tolle

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves.

Eckhart Tolle

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.

Eckhart Tolle