"If it is the quality of your..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.
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“Life is now. There was never a timewhen your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”
“Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.”
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“We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.”