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If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.

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
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