The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end. - Eckhart Tolle

Be the ever-alert guardian of your inner space. You need to be present enough to be able to watch the pain-body directly and feel its energy. It then cannot control your thinking. The moment your thinking is aligned with the energy field of the painbody, you are identified with it and again feeding it with your thoughts....For example, if anger is the predominant energy vibration of the pain-body and you think angry thoughts, dwelling on what someone did to you or what you are going to do to him or her, then you have become unconscious, and the pain-body has become "you."

What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.