"Don't think of yourself as having a..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?
More by Eckhart Tolle
“Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.”
“Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.”
“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”
More on Present Moment
“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?”
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
“Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.”
More on Time
“I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.”
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
“You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.”