Eckhart Tolle

So that's the starting point.

It begins with the realization of the absolute future.

primary importance of the present moment.

This is all you ever have.

So you might as well have a good relationship with the present moment because if your relationship with the present moment is dysfunctional, your entire life is dysfunctional.

Let's leave aside for a moment physical pain.

It's another story, but the psychological pain that's there is, again, associated with certain situations.

It's associated with your life situation, which may

be problematic on some level, whether it's financial or relationship or work situation or living situation or health situation.

It's very likely that at any given time,

your life situation will be problematic on at least one of these levels.

And sometimes it's not one, it's two or three or four becomes really problematical.

You lose all your money, you lose your job, your wife leaves you, or you lose your home.

These things can do sometimes happen.

So you have that.

And again, that's usually...

These life challenges, situational challenges, are usually perceived as being part of the present moment, but they're not really the present moment.

They are what I call your life situation.

But other than your life situation, you have something that I call your life.

Life situation exists in time.