Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Eckhart Tolle exploring "psychological time": time is initially experienced as a helpful force enabling growth and achievements, but can become an enemy that traps people in an egoic identity, leading to suffering.
Time. The very thing that you loved so much that. The very thing that enables you to grow. Yes, it's great. Time enables you to acquire knowledge to. Enables you to achieve this or that. Time enables you to get stronger. All this is wonderful. Time gives you all that and then it takes it away. So first time is your friend. And then something happens. Time becomes your enemy. So you're. You're trapped in time. If you're trapped in time, you're also trapped in this, the entire egoic identity that is part of that. And you will encounter suffering.
Why alcohol feels like relief, and what it is really giving you | Eckhart Tolle
