When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing wh…

Eckhart Tolle
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When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed. ✨ Eckhart Tolle (2006). A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, p.181, Penguin
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When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed. ✨ Eckhart Tolle (2006). A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, p.181, Penguin

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