“Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life. Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 9

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