Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Reality

All Eckhart Tolle Quotes Abundance Acceptance Achievement Age Anxiety Arguing Attitude Awakening Awareness Balance Beauty Being Yourself Belief Challenges Change Character Children Choices Compassion Consciousness Creativity Culture Darkness Desire Drama Earth Effort Ego Empathy Energy Enlightenment Enthusiasm Envy Evil Evolution Expectations Fear Feelings Fighting Finding Yourself Focus Freedom Giving Giving Up God Grace Gratitude Growth Happiness Healing Heart Home Honor Humanity Humility Identity Illness Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Jesus Journey Joy Judgement Judging Karma Letting Go Life Listening Live Life Losing Loss Love Lying Madness Meditation Meetings Memories Mindfulness Motivational Negativity Opportunity Overcoming Pain Past Peace Perception Personality Perspective Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Purpose Quality Reading Reality quotes Recognition Reflection Responsibility Running Sadness Salvation Self Esteem Separation Serenity Silence Simplicity Sleep Soul Spirituality Stress Struggle Success Suffering Surrender Survival Teaching Technology Time Transformation Understanding Universe Violence Waiting War Weakness Wisdom Worry Writing Yoga

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.

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.

Spiritual, Reality, Survival

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

Acceptance, Reality, Energy

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

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?

Spiritual, Believe, Reality

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

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.

Running, Spiritual, Reality

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

Spiritual, Reality, Mind

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

Spiritual, Reality, People

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

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

Mean, Reality, Unconscious

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

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.

Reality, Depth, Layers

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

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

Humor, Cutting, Reality

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

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.

God, Reality, Important

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

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.

Cutting, Reality, Thinking

Source: rayhemachandra.com

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.

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

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.

Reality, Self, Ego

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

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.

Flower, Simple, Reality

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

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.

Reality, Mind, Important

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

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

Reality, Unseen, Levels

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.

Reality, Suffering, Way

Source: rayhemachandra.com

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

Lying, Character, Reality

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

The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say "Yes" to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that "Yes," that state of inner non-resistance to what is.

Powerful, Reality, Resistance

No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

Mean, Cutting, Reality

Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others.

Reality, Humanity, Suffering

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

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.

Simple, Reality, Giving

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

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

Cutting, Reality, Thinking

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

You May Also Like: