Eckhart Tolle argues that constant thinking is a habit, not a necessity. The essence of stillness is too simple for the mind to grasp, so stop trying to intellectually understand it and just rest in presence instead.
Do you need to fill up every moment with thoughts? Do you need to figure out right now, mentally, conceptually, what it is that I'm talking about? No, you cannot figure it out conceptually because it's too simple. What's it saying? Let me think and analyze what he just said. Thought stillness. What does he mean? Has he really defined stillness? I'm still looking for better definitions. Whatever. No, you can't figure. There's nothing to figure out, conceptually or mentally. It goes beyond that.
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