"The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the……" — Eckhart Tolle
"The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind."
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722 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
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Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he…
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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized…
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
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I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored…
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The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any…
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough…
— Candace Cameron
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You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our…
— Oscar Robertson
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The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be…
— George V. Higgins
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Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.
— Charles Bukowski
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Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied…
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