The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

by Eckhart Tolle

Emotion literally means “disturbance.” The word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning “to disturb.”

Emotions, on the other hand, being part of the dualistic mind, are subject to the law of opposites. This simply means that you cannot have good without bad. So

in the unenlightened, mind-identified condition, what is sometimes wrongly called joy is the usually short-lived pleasure side of the continuously alternating pain/pleasure cycle. Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

and to

PAIN CREATE NO MORE PAIN

mind are in fact inseparable.

Imagine the Earth devoid of human life, inhabited only by plants and animals. Would it still have a past and a future? Could we still speak of time in any meaningful way? The question “What time is it?” or “What’s the date today?” — if anybody were there to ask it — would be quite meaningless. The oak tree or the eagle would be bemused by such a question. “What time?” they would ask. “Well, of course, it’s now. The time is now. What else is there?”

Not sure because there may not be 24 hrs or our calendar but they know might and day. Dark and light. It would be genesis 1:5