Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Awakening

Quotes about: Awakening

• You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.91, New World Library

• As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Wisdom, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.93, New World Library

• To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Grace, Ease, Awakening

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2012

• Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Men, Land

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.194, Penguin

• So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Mean, Journey

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

• When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Freedom, Thinking, Voice

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.29, New World Library

• The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Awakening

• You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Eckhart Tolle (2004). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.147, New World Library

• That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Powerful, Real

• Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fall, Mean

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

• Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening consciousness. Other people are not called to go out into the world and create great big things externally. Their purpose is to let consciousness flow into whatever they do - to do everything in a sacred manner.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, People, Purpose

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

• To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Ego, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

• For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Mind

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

• Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Spiritual, Soul

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.17, New World Library

• Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.

  Eckhart Tolle

  God, Reality, Important

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.14, New World Library

• Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Awakening, New Earth, Knows

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.20, Penguin

• Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  True Power, True Life, Purpose

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.eckharttolle.com.

• There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Awakening, True To Yourself

• Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Awakening, Evolution, Process

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

• My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, People

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Suffering

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

• Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teaching, Grace

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

• Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Taken, Thinking

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

• Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, Humanity

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

• For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Loss, Serious Illness, People

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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