Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Freedom

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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,

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

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

Pain, Freedom, Long

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.74, New World Library

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual, Freedom, Joy

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.29, New World Library

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Eckhart Tolle

Freedom, Past, Psychological Needs

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