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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by Eckhart Tolle
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Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: New World Library
Pub. in: September, 2004
ISBN: 1577314808
Pages: 224
Measurements: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00344
Other information: Reprint edition
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The # 1 New York Times Bestseller. Over 2 million copies have been sold and the book has been translated into more than 30 languages. |
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This extraordinary book should be on the required reading list of every high school. The Power of Now is a guide on finding inner peace and spiritual enlightenment by focusing on the "eternal present." Gently yet with great clarity, Eckhart Tolle shares wisdom tapped from the collective consciousness and teaches you how to rise above the chatter of the mind and pain-body.
The first chapter, You Are Not Your Mind, reflects on the qualities of enlightenment and Being. Enlightenment, Tolle writes, is "finding your true nature beyond name and form", and "a state of wholeness, of being `at one' and therefore at peace." He describes Being as "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death," as "your very essence, the feeling of your own presence." He explains that the mind is a tool of the ego, not a reflection of the self. In order to attain enlightenment, you must come to a realization that the mind is not your identity, and "that all things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind."
Tolle then sends you on a journey to consciousness. He teaches you how to be deeply present in the now, and accepting all things as they are. In chapter five, The State of Presence," he gives practical instruction on how to "inhabit your body fully." Consciousness occurs, Tolle says, "When Being becomes conscious of itself." He then goes on to describe how to ground and transform yourself by connecting with your inner body.
In Chapter seven, Portals of the Unmanifested, Tolle discusses how space and silence are the source of all life energy. Every night, in dreamless sleep, you take a journey into the Unmanifested and merge with the Source, drawing the energy essential for sustenance in the world of manifested, separate forms. The major portals into the Unmanifested are through the inner body, the Now, the cessation of thinking, and surrender. "Just as no sound can exist without silence," Tolle explains, "nothing can exist without no-thing, without the empty space that enables it to be."
Though the power of now, with sustained attention and acceptance, you can also experience enlightened relationships. This requires you to stop judging, to release the ego, and let go of the pain of the collective unconscious.
In chapter nine, Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness There is Peace, you learn how to rise above the mind-based concept of good and bad. You can find peace within by relinquishing your life drama, accepting that life is cyclical and temporary, and releasing negativity. "Don't look for peace," Tolle advises. "Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your no-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender."
True compassion, according to Tolle, is "awareness of a common bond of shared mortality and immortality. At this deep level, compassion becomes healing in the widest sense. In that state, your healing influence is primarily based not on doing but on being. Everybody you com in contact with will be touched by your presence and affected by the peace that you emanate, whether they are conscious of it or not."
In The Meaning of Surrender, the final chapter, Tolle explains that surrender is "yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life," to "accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation," and "to relinquish inner resistance." Only by surrendering to the present moment can spiritual energy come into this world. That is the power of now.
(From quoting C. Cohen, USA)
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Anyone who's on a spiritual path to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth.
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Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany, where he spent the first thirteen years of his life. After graduating from the University of London, he was a research scholar and supervisor at Cambridge University. At age twenty-nine a profound spiritual transformation virtually dissolved his old identity and radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. For the past ten years, Eckhart has been a counselor and spiritual teacher. Through this book, his teaching is now available throughout the world. He is currently traveling extensively bringing not only his teaching but his presence to a growing number of audiences. He has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, since 1996.
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It's no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever- present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death." Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback shows that only after regaining awareness of Being, liberated from Mind and intensely in the Now, is there Enlightenment.
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The Truth That Is Within You
This book represents the essence of my work, as far as it can be conveyed in words, with individuals and small groups of spiritual seekers during the past ten years, in Europe and in North America. In deep love and appreciation, I would like to thank those exceptional people for appreciation, I would like to thank those exceptional people for their courage, their willingness to embrace inner change, their challenging questions, and their readiness to listen. This book would not have come into existence without them. They belong to what is as yet a small but fortunately growing minority of spiritual pioneers: people who are reaching a point where they become capable of breaking out of inherited collective mind-patterns that have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.
I trust that this book will find its way to those who are ready for such radical inner transformation and so act as catalyst for it. I also hope that it will reach many others who will find its content worthy of consideration, although they may not be ready to fully live or practice it. It is possible that at a later time, the seed that was sown when reading this book will merge with the seed of enlightenment that each human being carries within, and suddenly that seed will sprout and come alive within them.
The book in its present form originated, often spontaneously, in response to questions asked by individuals in seminars, meditation classes, and private counseling sessions and so I have kept the question-and-answer format. I learned and received as much in those classes and sessions as the questioners. Some of the questions and answers I wrote down almost verbatim. Others are generic, which is to say I combined certain types of questions that were frequently asked into one, and extracted the essence from different answers to form one generic answer. Sometimes, in the process of writing, an entirely new answer came that was more profound or insightful than anything I had ever uttered. Some additional questions were asked by the editor so as to provide further clarification of certain points.
You will find that from the first to the last page, the dialogues continuously alternate between two different levels.
On one level, I draw your attention to what is false in you. I speak of the nature of human unconsciousness and dysfunction as well as its most common behavioral manifestations, from conflict in relationships to warfare between tribes or nations. Such knowledge is vital, for unless you learn to recognize the false as false - as not you - there can be no lasting transformation, and you would always end up being drawn back into illusion and into some form of pain. On this level, I also show you how not to make that which is false in you into a self and into a personal problem, for that is how the false perpetuates itself.
On another level, I speak of a profound transformation of human consciousness - not as a distant future possibility, but available now - no matter who or where you are. You are shown how to free yourself from enslavement to the mind, enter into this enlightened state of consciousness and sustain it in everyday life.
On this level of the book, the words are not always concerned with information, but often designed to draw you into this new consciousness as you read. Again and again, I endeavor to take you with me into that timeless state of intense conscious presence in the Now, so as to give you a taste of enlightenment. Until you are able to experience what I speak of, you may find those passages somewhat repetitive. As soon as you do, however, I believe you will realize that they contain a great deal of spiritual power, and they may become for you the most rewarding parts of the book. Moreover, since every person carries the seed of enlightenment within, I often address myself to the knower in you who dwells behind the thinker, the deeper self that immediately recognizes spiritual truth, resonates with it, and gains strength from it.
The pause symbol ∫ after certain passages is a suggestion that you may want to stop reading for a moment, become still, and feel and experience the truth of what has just been said. There may be other places in the text where you will do this naturally and spontaneously.
As you begin reading the book, the meaning of certain words, such as "Being" or "presence," may not be entirely clear to you at first. Just read on. Questions or objections may occasionally come into your mind as you read. They will probably be answered later in the book, or they may turn out to be irrelevant as you go more deeply into the teaching - and into yourself.
Don't read with the mind only. Watch out for any "feeling-response" as you read and a sense of recognition from deep within. I cannot tell you spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. Living knowledge, ancient and yet ever new, is then activated and released from within every cell of your body.
The mind always wants to categorize and compare, but this book will work better for you if you do not attempt to compare its terminology with that of other teachings; otherwise, you will probably become confused. I used words such as "mind," "happiness," and "consciousness" in ways that do not necessarily correlate with other teachings. Don't get attached to any words. They are only stepping stones, to be left behind as quickly as possible.
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Russell E. DiCarlo (Author of Towards a New World Conversation at the Leading Edge, USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
By living from the depths of this Greater Reality, Eckhart clears an energetic pathway for others to join him. |
AudioFile (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
The author shares ideas about personal integration with uncommon eloquence and a deep understanding of the human condition. Our true identity is in our moment-to-moment experiences rather than in our past or future. Concern about anything but the present is an unhealthy identification with the mind that can only cause pain and an illusion of control. Being totally aware of ourselves in each moment actually requires little effort or direction if we stop our thoughts long enough to find the pure consciousness that exists in the gaps between them. These ideas will be radical for most Westerners, but they are so smoothly elucidated that almost all seekers of inner truth will find something of value in the program. |
Deepak Chopra (Author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
One of the best books to come along in years. Every sentence rings with truth and power. |
ForeWord magazine (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
Tolle has succeeded on two fronts: synthesizing the teachings of masters such as Jesus and the Buddha into an easily accessible guige to achieving spiritual consciousness and making a strong case that the inability of humans to free themselves from dominance by the mind and live in the present is the root cause for misery in the world... He makes enlightenment seem attainable and necessary for both individual peace and the health of the planet. |
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