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It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 16
Author
Philosopher
Writer
Luenen
Ulrich Leonard Tölle
Sense
Trapped
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Streams
Thinking
Exists
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Loses
Disintegrates
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Interconnectedness
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Compulsive
Universe
Incessant

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