Tolle identifies something subtler than mere impatience—he's pointing out that suffering arrives not from our circumstances but from the *fracture* between them and our desires. We might assume stress comes from our workload or our commute, but he suggests the real culprit is our mind's refusal to accept what's actually happening. A parent stuck in traffic (here) while anxious about a child's school pickup (there) discovers that the anxiety doesn't ease even when they arrive—because their mind has already moved to the next destination, the next worry. The freedom he hints at isn't about eliminating goals, but about stopping the exhausting practice of mentally abandoning where we are.