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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Body

"On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Body

"Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Body

"The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Body

"Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves."

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Plato Philosopher
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"Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?"

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