Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Reality, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

• In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Oneness, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.92, New World Library

• Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Depth, Layers

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.157, Penguin

• The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

• Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.198, Penguin

• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Acceptance, Reality, Energy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

• Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World”, p.54, 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.

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  God, Reality, Important

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

• Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Reality, Unconscious

  "The new age philosophy of mind over… mind". Interview at Omega Institute, www.newyorktimesbestsellerlist.org. Fall 2003.

• Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate and that then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Spiritual, Reality

• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

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  Real, Thinking, Events

• Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Self, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.32, New World Library

• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Real, Believe

  "Bad Memories? Eckhart Tolle’s Advice on How to Deal". “Super Soul Sunday“ with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

• But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Mind, Important

  "Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness". Interview with Steve Donoso, thesunmagazine.org. July 2002.

• If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Reality, Survival

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

• Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humor, Cutting, Reality

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.11, Penguin

• What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Thinking, Reflection

• Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.

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  Reality, Suffering, Way

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

• Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.15, New World Library

• The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Character, Reality

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

• Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Simple, Reality

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.30, Penguin

• [Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Unseen, Levels

• The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Reality, Giving

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

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