"The eternal present is the space within..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
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“A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.”
“Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.”
“Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.”
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“The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.”
“Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.”
“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”
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“With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.”
“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.”
“We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.”