Being Compulsively Preoccupied with the Future

The egoic self is always engaged in seeking. It is seeking more of this or that to add to itself, to make itself feel more complete. This explains the ego’s compulsive preoccupation with the future.

 

Wherever you become aware of yourself “living for the next moment,” you have already stepped out of that egoic mind pattern, and the possibility of choosing to give your full attention to this moment arises simultaneously.

 

By giving your full attention to this moment, an intelligence far greater than the egoic mind enters your life.

 

Eckhart Tolle

from Stillness Speaks

Chapter: The Egoic Self