The future is just a thought.

In this episode, Eckhart talks with a live audience about our obsession with the future.

He says, if we're always living for the future, we never get to experience the present, because the future is only a thought.

We spend our time waiting for a life that never arrives, full of missed opportunities

now. Eckhart reminds us the only moment we ever truly have is the here and now.

Just checking if everybody is present.

Especially important as you begin to move around again,

leaving here, many of you.

One little thing, if you remember to live this little thing, that would already significantly

change your state of consciousness. And that little thing to remember, not as a memory,

as a concept that you remember, but to remember to apply every moment is, or concerns, the value that you attribute to the present moment,

whatever may be happening in the present moment.

And the usual mistake or dysfunctional way of living,

unconscious way, is, as I've mentioned before,

is devaluing the present moment

and overvaluing the next moment.

That's so unconscious that most people have no idea that

that's how they live, because everybody lives like that, and everybody has been conditioned

to live like that. But that is a significant factor in unskilful living, unconscious living, and it strengthens

the ego enormously.

Ego lives always with reference to past and future.

For example, I come here, I emerge from behind the curtain.

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