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The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago.
The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger.
There's been an ego growth over thousands of years; it's growing to a point of madness,
with the ultimate madness having been reached in the twentieth century.
One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax
of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human
violence inflicted on other humans.
So in the present time,
we can't escape from the world anymore;
we can't escape from the mind.
We need to enter surrender while we are in the world.
That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.
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- Eckhart Tolle
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