It's always Now.

Eckhart Tolle’s teaching, popularized in the late 1990s and 2000s through works like *The Power of Now*, repeatedly returns to the idea that psychological suffering is sustained by identification with past and future. In his talks and writings he emphasizes that lived experience only ever occurs in the present moment, and that “time” is largely a mental construct used for practical purposes but mistaken for reality. The aphoristic line “It’s always Now” encapsulates this core message in a compressed form typical of his lecture style and spiritual-instruction prose.

The statement insists that the present moment is not one slice of time among others but the only point at which life is actually encountered. Past and future exist as memory and anticipation—thought-forms arising in awareness—while experience itself is invariably immediate. In Tolle’s framework, recognizing that “it’s always now” is meant to loosen compulsive rumination and anxiety, redirect attention from narrative thinking to direct perception, and open a space for what he calls presence. The line functions both as a metaphysical claim about temporality and as a practical cue for mindfulness.