Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

Learn to enjoy moments of nothingness, without reaching for distraction.

13 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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Eckhart Tolle discusses modern phone use as an addiction that people use to clutter their minds and avoid being alone with themselves. He acknowledges phones can sometimes be helpful (important messages, communication), but urges learning to enjoy periods of being alone without reaching for distractions.

All humans these days, they get out their phone in order to clutter their mind. And it's an addiction. But a lot of the time, it's not just unnecessary, but extremely harmful. Of course, sometimes it's helpful. Sometimes there is an important message. Sometimes it's good to be able to communicate with someone, be conscious of that, so that you learn to enjoy a period of being alone without necessarily doing anything.