Excerpt 1: Thinking Folly by Eckhart Tolle

The wise and the fools, the king and the wizard, and the thinker and the imaginator.  This is some of the excerpt that can be found from the article of Thinking Folly by the author of “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. The article contains one of the most unimaginable ideas that no common human can think of in this few decade. What Eckhart has interpreted in his article is that thinking is not the whole point of obtaining the Eureka moment, but the imagination itself.

In our daily life, we think to solve things. But as I see it, thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. As too much reliance put upon thinking, reality becomes patchy.

In Tolle’s work, he describe thinking is a disease. The disease as he proclaim is where the mind of a human is the one that control you more than you control the mind. As he puts it, "the mind is a superb mechanism when it is used rightly. If used in the wrong manner, however, it becomes very destructive. This is what Tolle express in his article yet what he express does share the same belief as I am as I believe if one’s too dependent on it’s mind to think, then you yourself will be the puppet of your mind in the end of the day.

According to Einstein, thinking “plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself”. Such quotation explains that those that who never stops to think is an idiot who didn’t want to accept what’s in front of them and what’s behind the big block that was created from the black fragmentation of wasted time. If you were to become a unique scientist or thinker, stop thinking and start imagining. If you didn’t, then your life is as common as the other human that live near you.

This is illustrated in a story of a wise man who have believe that he acquire a high degree of language skill in his life.

He enter a school that focus on that certain language and he and his family were very buoyant that he would gain a prestigious rank in the school.

But as time flies, he failed to achieve what’s being targeted and shall the people around him questioning the reason for his failure.

“What terrible wind that disrupts your study? Or perhaps you’re just being unlucky” they said.

The man portrays a sad face and said “Maybe”.

As silence comes in the conversation, the man leaves the school and began to study somewhere else.

When the next examination arrives, he shows a confident face that radiates all the other candidate about the success that might comes in this exam.

But again the tragedy repeats as for the outcome result isn’t amusing to his eye. Unfortunately, as friend of his accidently caught his gloomy face and unintentionally began to say a sad full question of “Are you and idiot, you could have done better.”

He answers “Maybe”.

The significant of the wise man to say “maybe” is to refuse of judging anything that happens.

But instead, he accepts in what just happen and believe there’s always an opportunity and opportunity isn’t being god or whatsoever, but it is us that who are suppose to create it.

If he were to try to think of his failure and find the reason for it, even thou with continuous failure attempt, he know there is a greater thing to worry and thinking of a failure for a written based paper examination would only trap you in your mind prison.

(P/S: Somehow i believe that my example of story doesn't seem to be "right". A reconstruct of idea will be made later on)