Eckhart Tolle argues that many people remain dominated by a continuously speaking "voice in the head," making them unaware of inner stillness. Even in externally silent settings like nature, individuals often retain internal mental noise, which he describes as unnecessary and sometimes destructive, harmful, and toxic.
Many humans are still engaged with their noisy mind. The voice in the head does not stop speaking. Normally, people are not aware of stillness at all. And even when they go out into nature, where there is a high degree of stillness, they might be in external silence. But internally there is no silence. There is continuing mental noise, a lot of which is not only unnecessary, but actually destructive, harmful and toxic.
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