Eckhart Tolle Consciousness Quotations

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.

Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness.

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.

Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.

For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.

Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

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

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.