The Power of Now

[WalkerInTheWoods]

I don't think the point of his book is about time traveling but being mindful of the now and not worrying about the past or future. Too much of our energy is spent thinking about the past or possible futures when all action and life is taking place right here right now. Now is where we should be concentrating on for it is where we really are. The past and future are merely illusion produced by our out of control thinking. When you stop to smell the roses, are you really experiecing the moment or are you thinking about experiencing it?

[Akensai]

The past and the future don't really exist. We are intelligent enough to predict the near future whit a certain accurateness, when you make an appointment whit your doctor, you can be reasonable sure he knows your coming, this way we see the future as something already there ahead in time, but it really isn't, only in our mind. And the past isn't real either, all the thing we did remain only in our memory and in the effects of the past. The now is where everything happens.

[Arie]

Eckhart's whole emphasis in this book is present-moment-awareness.  He basically says most people's day to day awareness is usually stuck in the future or in the past...or using the present to get to the future.   It's kind of confusing...but it can be fun.  Even when you reach the future that you wanted to get to...your still in the present...the Now...as he says.  Even if a time travelor were to travel 40 years into the future...for him it would be the present moment...but in our eyes it would be the future. Get me?  The Eternal Now.