Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeki…

Eckhart Tolle
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Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it. ✨ Eckhart Tolle (2008). Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth, p.12, Penguin
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