-009_Looking to the Next Moment—Waiting.htm Looking to the Next Moment—Waiting A corollary of the state of constant wanting and needing is the tendency to live always in the future. One does not find joy or satisfaction in the present moment, and looks continually to the next moment or the future when one hopes to have the fulfillment of one's desires. The present moment is regarded as only a means or a passage to the future. Because the future never arrives, one unconsciously lives in a continual state of waiting. Perhaps sensing the state of waiting in the audience before starting to speak, Eckhart has on several occasions opened his talk by commenting on the pervasive attitude of waiting, about w