"Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.
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“The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.”
“When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.”
“The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”
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“Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.”
“You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
“To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).”
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“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
“Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.”
“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”