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Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

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Eckhart Tolle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 16
Author
Philosopher
Writer
Luenen
Ulrich Leonard Tölle
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Presence
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Moving
Music
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People
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Bridges

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Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.
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If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.
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The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.
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Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.
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Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.
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Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.
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The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us we are also assisting the animals.
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We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.
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When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
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For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.
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