Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Oct 08, 2011

• Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Negativity, Insane, Let It Go

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.189, New World Library

• I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Sorry, Fate

• As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Long, Identity

• The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Errors

• To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Psychological Needs, Identity

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.72, New World Library

• There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, True Power, Evil

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.103, Penguin

• Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Mean, Negativity

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

• The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Identity, Patterns, Particular

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.56, Penguin

• Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Drama, Mind, Tragedy

• The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Identity, Body

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.37, New World Library

• A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Enemy, Identity, Groups

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

• To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Past, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.31, New World Library

• Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Eye, Essence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.113, New World Library

• Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Names, Identity

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 02, 2011

• You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Powerful, Mean

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.75, Penguin

• Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.81, 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

• When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Keys, Desire

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.91, New World Library

• Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

  Eckhart Tolle

  War, Drama, Character

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.58, Penguin

• My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Identity, Down And, Consciousness

  "Interview With Eckhart Tolle". Interview at Omega Institute, www.ecomall.com. Fall, 2003.

• To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Ego, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.48, New World Library

• ...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Giving, Promise

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

• If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Identity

  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.

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