Eckhart Tolle: Mind

Eckhart Tolle is German writer. Explore interesting quotes on mind.
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“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“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.”

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)

“All problems are illusions of the mind.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

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

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)
Variant: 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.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“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.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“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.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“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.”

Eckhart Tolle

“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.”

Eckhart Tolle

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

Eckhart Tolle

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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

Eckhart Tolle

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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

Eckhart Tolle

Variant: Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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

Eckhart Tolle

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

Eckhart Tolle

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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

Eckhart Tolle

Variant: All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Source: Stillness Speaks

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

Eckhart Tolle

Variant: Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“You are not your mind”

Eckhart Tolle