Eckhart Tolle: Mind

“Teachings that pointed the way beyond the dysfunction of the human mind, the way out of the collective insanity, were distorted and became themselves part of the insanity.
And so religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through a realization of the fundamental oneness of all life, they brought more violence and hatred, more divisions between people as well as between different religions and even within the same religion.”

“All problems are illusions of the mind.”

“All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.”

“This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.”

“The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”

“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”

“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”

“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

“every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.”

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

“Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.”

“Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.”

“Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet”

“Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”

“All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.”

“whatever you fight, you strengthyen. What you resist, persists. "A New Earth":War is a mind set”

“You are not your mind”