Favorite quotes I read in this week and you dont want to miss it out !!!

Occasionally, we stumble upon a few quotes that redefine how we think about the way our world operates. Let me share a couple of quotes that I came across recently

Quote 1 :

“If a fish is born in your acquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish- that’s tragic. But it’s only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.”-Eckhart Tolle

Explanation

This quote by Eckhart Tolle is about the human tendency to assign meaning and identity to things or beings, which can create a sense of attachment and ultimately lead to suffering when those things change or end. In the example provided, a fish is given a name, identity, and a sense of history, which are all human constructs.

This leads the person to feel that the fish’s death is tragic when it gets eaten by another fish. However, Tolle suggests that the tragedy is not inherently in the fish’s death, but rather in the way we project our ideas of individuality and permanence onto the fish. In reality, the fish is part of a larger, ever-changing process and…