Eckhart TolleCan you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
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I’m not talking about thinking and knowing and understanding and processing and analyzing. I’m talking about thinking without the voice in your head, the voice that is always telling you what you’re doing or not doing or how it should be done. When you can do something without the voice, you can see it for what it is. You can see instead of judge.
You don’t have to understand it; you just see that it’s there. You can hear it for what it is: a signal that there is something else going on outside of yourself, and that there is a way to be there and not there at the same time.
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