The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions. - Eckhart Tolle

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)

You are that awareness, disguised as a person. (Ch 1)

In the distant past, this recognition already came to a few individuals. A man called Gautama Siddhartha, who lived 2,600 years ago in India, was perhaps the first who saw it with absolute clarity. Later the title Buddha was conferred upon him. Buddha means “the awakened one.”