The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego. The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now)
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Who is the decider to make the present moment its friend? Is choice a decision? Choice requires an either/or to choose from. When decision is like a choice, you can’t choose to make the present moment into your friend because there is no alternator to the present moment. There is no either/or; there is no PM and NOT PM, so you can’t choose between them, making a decision for the PM because it is the better of the two. The Present Moment has no second alternative moment.

“Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they can no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now)
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So we are all suffering from a mild to sever Schizophrenia. The person plugged into his iPhone music is a metaphor for minds wired to its thought. As infants we are given these wireless mind plugs, and according to our conditioning, we are given stations to listen to. We become stressed when the signal isn’t strong. We become psychic when all we can get is static on this collective mind. Here we listen to our story over and over again.

“The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of our planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now)

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Evolution occurs when the species and the environment restore balance. Environments change, and species as a part of the whole change with the whole in order to maintain balance between the parts and the whole. Mankind is a species and the earth is its environment. Man’s evolution is no longer on the physical plain. We don’t need 12 toes. Evolution for man is in consciousness. Everything evolves; everything changes; everything is inter-being.

In the past man’s tribes evolved when the local environment changed. Tribes explored, took over new territory, mixed with other tribes and evolved into inhabiting new world. Man creates worlds and then lives in them. Change forces evolution and the birth of new worlds. Is that no happening now?

For the first time man as a species is faced with a total change in environment. He must evolve of go extinct. The consciousness or world view that created the world we now inhabit cannot create the new world we must create. The old way must go in order for the new way to be born.