"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
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“Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.”
“When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.”
“The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.”
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“The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.”
“It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'”
“You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.”
More on Stillness
“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 seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.”
“You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.”