“True intelligence is to rise above thinking as the source of all intelligence.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
I sat with these words this morning and had to smile. Of course, it is Tolle’s thinking that comes up with these gems. ☺️
Yet, it opens us up to something that is beyond our thoughts, that many of us innately understand, but perhaps have not put into words.
When we take time to pause and notice our thoughts, there are two insights that come to my mind. The first is, that we are not our thinking. What we have taken for granted as the “truth” is really only our perspective of the world around us and what we have learned about it. We are conditioned by our parents, culture, religion etc to see the world in a certain way. We also have personal filters based on our own experience from a very young…
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