I was at an event yesterday where a speaker said that a certain tribe in the Amazon have no concept of time, no words for “week” or “month”. Strange, since we allow these ideas exert such pressure on us. They, on the contrary, do not think of time as a “thing”, or understand the idea of “I haven’t got the time”, racing against the clock to get something completed. This allows them to relate differently to the moment; they are not persecuted by an idea of a perfect moment, or relate to it just through the thinking faculty; they are grounded in the now, no matter how it is:
If your relationship to the present moment is not right,
nothing can ever be right in the future,
because when the future comes,
it’s the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
photo arjan richter
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Reblogged this on poroshanko and commented:
This is very interesting.
The tribes obviously don’t have bills to pay each month 😀
In general (apart from the bills 😀 ) I try to live in the moment because that’s what my chronic health symptoms demand. I rarely think about what I’ll do in 3 days time as I don’t know whether I’ll be well enough to do what I like.
Chronic pain and fatigue is a great teacher.
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