Not some weird belief system that we need to adopt. The possibility of living in a more peaceful, more vibrantly alive state of conciousness. Tolle's personal spiritual awakening came out of his own mental anguish.Įckhart Tolle: It's a state of conciousness. He calls it "awakening," a fancy-sounding name for what he says is a very attainable state.
ECKHART TOLLE ON THOUGHTS HOW TO
He says he can teach people how to become aware of the voice in their head, and thereby tame it. He says we're wasting our lives by refusing to live in the present moment. But according to Tolle, our ego isn't the only thing making us unhappy. Tolle blames most of the ills of the world on our egos: broken homes, wars and our destruction of the planet. Many people live habitually as if the present moment were either an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole life like that, where always this moment is never quite right, not good enough because you need to get to the next one, that is continuous stress. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgements, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. And also a lot of our thinking is very negative. Psychologists found that 98 or 99 percent of our thinking is repetitive. If you're able to use your mind instead of being used by your mind, that's a beautiful thing. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted. Thinking however can not become the master. Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. That would not be possible and it would not be desirable. So I'm not saying we musn't think anymore. And it prevents you from being truly alive. All these things, a bundle of thoughts, of repetitive thoughts that give you a sense of who you are.ĭan Harris: So our ego, this constant stream of thinking, the voice in our head is making us miserable?Įckhart Tolle: Yes, that's right. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Tolle granted ABC's Dan Harris a rare interview.Įckhart Tolle: To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. That voice in our heads, our ego, Tolle believes, has a relentless need to be right, which leads us to make enemies. His message is that our egos are destroying our lives, and by ego he doesn't just mean thinking we are special, he means our thinking, period. Instead, he's teaching people how to shut off the noise in their heads and be happy.
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