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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 16
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Philosopher
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Ulrich Leonard Tölle
Spirituality
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Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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