When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego. - Eckhart Tolle

The Now is also central to the teaching of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. Sufis have a saying: "The Sufi is the son of time present." And Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire."

To recognize one’s own insanity, is of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

"No self, no problem,” said the Buddhist master when asked to explain the deeper meaning of Buddhism.