"Nothing has happened in the past; it..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
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“A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.”
“Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.”
“You create a good future by creating a good present.”
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“The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.”
“So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing”
“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.”
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“Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends”
“...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.”
“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”