Instead of asking "what do I want from life?", a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?" - Eckhart Tolle

The ego doesn’t like to hear this, because if it cannot be reactive and righteous anymore, it will lose strength. (Ch 8)

In the Bible, it says that God created the world and saw that it was good. That is what you see when you look from stillness without thought. (Ch 1)

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."