Short excerpt from a spoken talk by Eckhart Tolle asserting that humanity’s troubles originate in people’s inability to "sit quietly in a room," which he links to a disconnection from the "being dimension." He argues that individual disconnection scales to collective harm when entire groups or systems lack access to this dimension.
All the troubles of humanity are due to men's or women's inability to sit quietly in a room. Now, at first, for people who don't understand the deeper dimension, they say that can't be right. If you look more deeply, what is this inability to sit quietly in a room? It is disconnection from the being dimension. Complete unawareness of the being dimension. Therefore, you cannot sit quietly in a room because even if you sit there, your mind will be noisy. How does this relate to all the troubles of humanity? Well, when you are disconnected from that dimension, you are a huge troublemaker. And if a whole collective, a whole country, political system, whatever it may be, is disconnected from that dimension, they create havoc.
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