Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
Eckhart TolleRead
Meditate or spend silent time in nature with your partner. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of sharing quiet moments with loved ones to foster connection and understanding.
Eckhart Tolle encourages couples to embrace stillness and silence together, suggesting that it can enhance their bond. By being present in shared moments of quiet, individuals can connect on a deeper emotional level, free from the distractions of mental chatter, allowing them to appreciate each other's presence more fully.
Themes
StillnessNatureRelationshipsSilencePresence
In practice
Example use cases
During a relationship workshop to discuss the importance of quiet time together.
More from Eckhart Tolle
All quotes →Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.
Eckhart TolleRead
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
Eckhart TolleRead
Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
Eckhart TolleRead
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Eckhart TolleRead
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Eckhart TolleRead
Similar quotes
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Mary AstellRead
Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
Michel De MontaigneRead
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Robert FrostRead
Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.
Neil GaimanRead
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
Chinua AchebeRead
Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.
J. K. RowlingRead