The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.Eckhart Tolle
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
— ECKHART TOLLE
Spiritual teacher and author · born 1948
Eckhart Tolle is a German-born spiritual teacher living in Canada, author of The Power of Now (1997) and A New Earth (2005), books on presence and the ego that became international bestsellers.
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