"Just as dogs love to chew bones,..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.
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“All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body”
“Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.”
“What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.”
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“When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.”
“Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.”
“We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.”