Eckhart Tolle

But it's still ego.

Happiness starts with the alignment with the present moment.

It can only arise if you are aligned with the present moment.

I sometimes call that the vertical dimension of life, which is now.

And then there's a horizontal dimension of life is where it's past and future, and you have a goal you're working towards.

That's fine.

You have the horizontal dimension.

And the vertical dimension is the present moment.

The horizontal dimension is the dimension of becoming.

You become good at something or you acquire something.

You become something.

There's an evolutionary process at work and that obviously has its place.

It's there.

But if you are exclusively focused on becoming and achieving, entertaining and acquiring,

you're trapped on the horizontal and you can never really enjoy the present moment.

Because the present moment is the vertical dimensions here now inseparable from the now.

The cross, the symbol of the cross one could interpret as, which is an ancient, it even predates Christianity.

The symbol of a cross can be interpreted as pointing to the intersection between the horizontal

and vertical dimension of life.

So the importance then is to discover the dimension, the vertical dimension, which is the power of the now, the present moment.