“The absurdity of owning something becomes even more apparent in the case of land. In the days of the white settlement, the natives of North America found ownership of land an incomprehensible concept. And so they lost it when the Europeans made them signs pieces of paper that were equally incomprehensible to them. They felt they belonged to the land, but the land did not belong to them.”
—Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth (via burnsomesoulcoal)
June 2013
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“In the German language, the word atmen, meaning “breathing,” is derived from atman, which in Sanskrit, the language of ancient India , refers to the innermost essence or universal self.”
—Eckhart Tolle
“Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of ‘something’ becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.”
—Eckhart Tolle (via tobiji)
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
—Hermann Hesse (via gebeine)
“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via mirroir)
“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain.”
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”
—Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
