Eckhart Tolle explains why we skip over the present moment, always chasing what comes next. We're conditioned to treat now as just a stepping stone to the future, even though the present is the only reality that actually exists.
The present moment is rarely acknowledged in its fullness, and usually it's at best a stepping stone to the next moment, which unconsciously— again, not because you're telling yourself that— the next moment is somehow, or next, or the one after that, is somehow regarded as more important, potentially more fulfilling than this moment. That's the mind pattern that we inherit from the surrounding culture. And that's a strange way to live if you consider that the present moment is all there ever is.
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