Forget Past and Future
A central teaching of Tolle’s enlightenment is, you guessed it, to focus on the now.
Tolle makes the case that lots of our suffering and pain happen because we allow the past and the future to poison our present. Which makes no sense to Tolle, because past and future don’t even exist.
The past cannot survive in your presence: it can only survive in your absence
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