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The Next Stage of Human Evolution

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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What Is My Relationship With the Present Moment?

All there ever is in your life is this moment. There is never a moment that's not now. People live as if now were not a desirable place. Some other now is the desirable place, but no other now exists except this one. So you might as well have a good relationship with this moment. You might as well become friendly with this moment because, after all, that's all there ever is. If your mind pattern is one of antagonism towards the present moment, denial, antagonism, then your entire life, you miss the whole thing. Because even when you're 75, 80, 85, you've waited to start living. And it was always going to happen any

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