You are not "the thinker"

The beginning of freedom is the realization

that you are not "the thinker."

The moment you start watching the thinker,

a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.

You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm

of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a

tiny aspect of that intelligence.

You also realize that all the things that truly matter --

beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace --

arise from beyond the mind.

You begin to awaken.

Eckhart Tolle from Practicing The Power of Now

Understanding Being

Please stop trying to understand Being. You have already had significant glimpses of Being, but the mind will always try to squeeze it into a little box and then put a label on it. It cannot be done. It cannot become an object of knowledge. In Being, subject and object merge into one.

--Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, 88

Eckhart Tolle, "The Current Economy"