"We can't escape from the world anymore;..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.
More by Eckhart Tolle
“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”
“If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?”
“The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.”
More on Surrender
“Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.”
“Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.”
“Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.”
More on World
“Any place that we love becomes our world.”
“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”
“When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.”