“The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through our thinking. Yet the totality of life has brought this event about. It is part of the web of interconnectedness that is the cosmos. This means whatever is could not be otherwise.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 10

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German writer 1948

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