To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.
Eckhart TolleMost people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.
Eckhart TolleWhen you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.
Eckhart TolleIf a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.
Eckhart Tolle