Eckhart Tolle

And then you look around, maybe you become aware that you're breathing, and you look around, and then you reluctantly sometimes people have to admit, well, okay, I'm ready to admit that at just this moment, there isn't actually a problem.

next one there might be, but the next one is again this.

Of course, at this moment, you may have a challenge that you immediately need to deal with.

If you're going for a walk and you encounter a wild animal coming towards you, you don't say, I don't have any problems at this moment.

That's a challenge that you need to deal with, but we wouldn't call it a problem.

I mean, I sometimes go for walks in the forest, and occasionally there are bears here.

So if you encounter a bear, that is not a problem.

It's a challenge, and you deal with it.

Either you run away or you don't.

Whatever you do, deal with it.

The problem is it lives in the mind.

And so to get out of that is to give much more attention to the present moment and realize that in the present moment, the problem cannot survive.

Say that one more time, in the present moment?

The problem, any problem you have cannot survive in the present moment because problem is a burden that you carry in your mind, your mental emotion.

That's what a problem is.

The rest is situations and circumstances.

Either you leave them alone if there's nothing you can do, or you take some action.

But they're not a problem.

Either you act or you don't act.

And if you don't act, you take your attention into the present moment and see that it's actually okay.