Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness … - Eckhart Tolle

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

Eckhart Tolle

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Pain, Joy, Mindfulness, Noise, Watcher, Thinker

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The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Collective, Ego, Knowledge, Racial, Religious, Work

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Spiritual, Practice, Spiritual Practice, Seriously, Take

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Primary, Unhappiness, Thoughts

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Fear, Forms, Regret, Sadness, Stress, Tension

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

Love You, Positivity, Validation, Looking, Fulfillment, Greater

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The US must be the honest broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. America needs to be to both of them what neither could be to the other: a trusted brokering partner. It is in their interest and our interest for America to play that role.

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Clayton Christensen

One of the factors that make great companies so great is that they have processes that allow them to solve difficult problems again and again. These processes have developed over time as teams have successfully wrestled with a certain type of challenge. Eventually, people begin to say, "This is just how we do something around here. " The problem develops when that team then has to solve a very different set of challenges. The processes that are such strengths can be crushing liabilities.

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A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

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Plato

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy.

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