Eckhart Tolle would say that I had everything I needed right then. I was alive, I was breathing. I was safe. And yet I still wanted more. Was that wrong? Did that mean I was not in the Now? Because even though part of me wanted a nice future, every time I thought about my aims and goals, they stressed me out. The wanting stressed me out. I would start to panic and tell myself to try harder, do more, make things happen. Wanting is the opposite of being in the Now. Tolle describes stress as ‘being “here” but wanting to be “there”’. He says that it’s natural for all of us to plan things for the
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