The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction …

Eckhart Tolle
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The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. ✨ Eckhart Tolle (2006). A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, p.36, Penguin
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