Lesson 2: Any pain you feel results from resisting the things you can’t change. If your task is to hand in a research paper in 14 days, neither regretting all this time you procrastinated nor worrying about the big workload that’s to come will actually help get you there.īut if you just start solving the first tiny problem and come up with an outline, it’s all downhill from there. Therefore, living in any other moment than the present is useless. When you think about it, the past is nothing more than all present moments that have gone by, and the future is just the collection of present moments waiting to arrive. Everything you feel and sense takes place in the present. The reason only the present matters is that everything happens here. Tolle says that the only important time is the one we think about the least: the present.
When you wake up 10 minutes too late in the morning, what’s the first thing you think? “Shit, I overslept, I wish I hadn’t hit the snooze button.” closely followed by “Oh no, now I’ll be late for work, I’m sure my boss will yell at me!” – and voilà, you’ve ruined at least the first half of your day. The constant stream of consciousness and thoughts in our head, which plays 24/7 in our heads, is mostly preoccupied with 2 things: the past and the future. The reason we regret and worry about a lot of things lies in the way our minds work.
If I asked 100 people to name the two most common bad feelings they can think of, 99 of them would probably respond with regret and anxiety. If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: All life is is a series of present moments.
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