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The Joy of Being

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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What Is Intelligence?

There are two ways of knowing anything in this world: One is through conceptualization, judgment of the mind, and one is through pure awareness. In order to be able to think, to have any creative thought, anything new, you need at least a little bit of access to the deeper level of non conceptual intelligence. The people who are creative don't even know that this is how it happens, two seconds of no thought. And then they suddenly something creative. They say, creative. Any joke that you make, if it comes to you, suddenly is com unless it's a stupid joke, it comes from some deeper place.

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