Eckhart Tolle

And then you get a whole string of associated thoughts that are negative.

How would I experience this moment without adding any thought to it?

Okay.

So there you stand.

And this would bring your attention into the present moment.

And so your attention moves into the present moment.

And in this present moment, you're standing there and you're breathing.

You're looking around, people moving, whatever the room is you find yourself in, you're breathing, you're perceiving things, people, and suddenly you may find

that this moment is actually free of suffering.

The suffering did not arise, was not caused by the external circumstance.

It was caused by the narrative in your mind about this circumstance.

That's a huge distinction.

And you begin to live consciously when you realize this.

Until you realize that, you live unconsciously, which means, in spiritual terms,

To live unconsciously is to be totally identified with whatever your mind is saying.

I call it the voice in the head, the narrative in your mind that tells you about how good things, how bad things are, how they should be.

They are, but they shouldn't be.

They should be different.

But they are as they are always in this moment.

You can't change this moment.