Short excerpt from a 2025 YouTube talk by Eckhart Tolle arguing that although time appears to affect everything, it cannot be directly perceived — only the present moment is experienced. The speaker emphasizes that in immediate experience there is no time and that life is always the present moment.
Now, there's a very strange thing that you discover. Although time seems to affect everything, I call it out here you can never see time. All you ever have is the present moment. In your immediate experience, there is no time. That's an interesting fact. In your immediate experience of life, there is no time. And that is, you can start thinking about it, but you don't need to. It's so simple that it's. Because it's so obvious that in your immediate experience of life is always the present moment.
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