Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, Perception, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.47, New World Library

• Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Links, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.69, Penguin

• You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rain, Wind, Might

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.77, Penguin

• You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Unconscious Thoughts, Mind, Able

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.25, New World Library

• 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

  Lying, Reflection, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.26, New World Library

• Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Broken Hearted, Emotion, Awareness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.69, Penguin

• Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Focus, Energy, Watches

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.27, New World Library

• When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Mind, Way

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

• Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reflection, Mind, Body

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 23, 2009

• Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

  Eckhart Tolle

  Unhappy, Stories, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.107, Penguin

• The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Over You, Events, Emotion

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

• Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Judging, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.55, New World Library

• If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Mind, Desire

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.117, New World Library

• Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Causes, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.55, New World Library

• By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Roots, Insanity

• Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen, your chest. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates the body. The body then becomes a doorway, so to speak, into a deeper sense of aliveness underneath the fluctuating emotions and underneath your thinking.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Hands, Feet

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.21, New World Library

• For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

• Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fear, Thinking

• The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Voice, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.90, Penguin

• An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

• Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Body, Emotion

• Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.89, Penguin

• Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

• When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Space, Perception

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

• When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Freedom, Mean, Self

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

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