Eckhart Tolle

Life is now.

And never not now.

And since your life is now, you have to ask yourself, yes, I have all these problems.

I don't know how I'm going to pay the rent, maybe, or my relationship is problem.

I have to...

in the middle of divorce proceedings, all these things that happen to people.

Or I've just been let go or my company has collapsed or whatever, or it might collapse.

Maybe it's doing well, but it may not do well next year.

All kinds of things that are perceived as problematic, which sometimes are real and sometimes are just imagination that again, we need to differentiate between

When people say they're having big problems, sometimes they are just in the mind because they think of things that might go wrong.

At other times they are actually

real challenges happening around you.

But here again, it's to single out the present moment and not to ignore action that you might take or have to take in order to change certain situations.

Is there any action that I can take?

That's a secondary question.

It's important, but it's secondary.

The primary question I often ask people, what problem do you have at this moment?

And then they usually start by saying, well, I'm running out of money, or I'm living in this unpleasant place, or whatever.

I say, no, no, running out of money is not, just this moment, right here and now.

What problem do you have here and now, in this moment?