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When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 16
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Philosopher
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Luenen
Ulrich Leonard Tölle
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