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    The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
    The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
    The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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    The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

    Written by Eckhart Tolle

    Narrated by Eckhart Tolle

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    Open yourself to the transforming experience of The Power of Now, the acclaimed bestseller by revolutionary spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle.

    To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first minute of Eckhart Tolle's extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. We become connected 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.”

    Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question and answer format to guide us. A word of mouth phenomenon since its first publication, The Power of Now is one of those rare audiobooks with the power to create an experience in listeners, one that can radically change their lives for the better.

    Editor's Note

    In the moment...

    How often do you worry about the future? Agonize over the past? According to Eckhart Tolle, that’s pretty much all we do. This book teaches how to let go of distracting anxieties we can’t control.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateJan 1, 2000
    ISBN9781577313755
    Author

    Eckhart Tolle

    Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation 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. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Since 1995 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada. Eckhart Tolle is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time. In 2008, A New Earth became the first spiritual book to be selected for Oprah's Book Club as well as the subject of a ten-week online workshop co-taught by Eckhart and Oprah.

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    • 5/5
      This book changed my life. I wish I could buy a copy for every suffering person on this planet

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      loveddddd it! very humbling & powerful. just what i needed. recommend this to everyone that is ready.. i do believe that "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear". many practical things to apply directly im our lives to be truly present in every moment & be our authentic selves, instead of the ego/mind which a lot of us are presently..

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      What an amazing book on how to get Your life back! I’m going to listen to it over and over again

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      It’s quite hard to listen to his voice…made me stop the book unfortunately

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Very relaxing narration. Useful for gaining more self awareness and helpful with my marriage. The interview style is a bit jarring though and seems unnecessary to the content although beneficial.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Excellent book but the chiming sound makes it almost unlistenable. The narrator has a very soft low voice and that tone is much louder so if you're listening via headphones or have it turned up in the car be warned.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very powerful book for those seeking the information needed to extend their spiritual knowledge. The base and foundation of self awareness and your connection to God.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This to me is the most meaningful book I ever read. It flipped a switch on me and I now approach life and all situations from a different angle which is helping me progress and improve and enjoy life day after day. This is a masterpiece.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The Power of Now explores the sequence of events that leads to one unhappiness and misery, and how we can reconnect with our true selves by becoming the ‘observers’ of the mind rather than the ‘puppets’ of it.

      Tolle opens the book by going in depth with the past/future illusion that our minds create and how identification with those mind created ‘selfs’ can diminish our worth and confuse us. Later, he dives into what he calls the ‘pain bodies’, which explain the phenomenon of personal pain, social/environmental pollution and destruction. Finally, he finishes with the consciousness and how we can leverage it with our outer world.

      Now, for my personal review:

      Being a person who has never gone in depth with Spirituality I can say that this book gives you a couple of quality practices that can bring more peace and understanding to your life. No matter what happens as long as you are sane within yourself there is nothing that can shake you enough. But to regain consciousness from the mind is to let go a bit from the outer world and it’s workings. Some people may not be ready to do that….

      Big notes about the book:

      - The structure of the book is in a Q&A format which can be annoying to some because it is not sequential and jumps a bit from theme to theme.

      - The themes that it explores are half theoretical and half practical, meaning they make sense but you have to really think deeply and analyze to understand them.

      - The tone can make you fall asleep.

      Now for the good and bad from the book.

      The good things that you can extract from this book can be summarized as:
      - A better understanding of the mind and it’s inner working.
      - A better understanding of the past/future forms.
      - A better understanding of the ‘ego’.
      - A better understanding of popular religions.
      - A guide of how to be more present.

      Before I dive into the bad things of the book, I want to explore some misconceptions of it.

      - This book explores practices that may take months or years to master, so don’t expect to understand everything in just one reading.

      - It doesn’t demonize religions as ‘bad’, it just exposes how the humans have misunderstood them and their teachings through the years. Also, it teaches the similarities between them.

      - This book does not tell you to stop thinking at all but rather be the observer of your thoughts so you are not subject to them 100% of the time (since most of them are negative).

      The bad things from this book can be summarized as:
      - Being repetitive in certain parts.
      - The tone is, in its majority, very monotonous so I can leave your brain numbing if you read it for too long.
      - Some themes that the book explores are very theoretical and can be confusing.
      - As I said earlier, the Q&A format is a little annoying since it’s jumping and there’s not that much sequence to the themes.
      - Energy fields.

      Finally, I will say that this book definitely is worth reading if you are into mindfulness and spirituality in general; but be a careful explorer of it. Take a lot of notes, analyze what he says and practice whatever you find useful.

      I originally thought of rating it 4/5 but I will complete this review by giving it 3.5/5.

      1 sentence summary: Very interesting, a couple of good practices, but takes work and patience to understand the majority of the concepts, plus some of them don’t make a whole lot of sense.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Best book ever to understand what's about in life! S

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Wow! Funny how we all are looking for the same thing in different ways! We all want “the peace of God”! Great book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      this book is a life-changing one, thankyou eckhart for this beautiful work

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The idea of becoming the “watcher” of your thoughts, disidentifying from your mind, has helped me find my present. This book is very enlightening.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Life transformational material that will take you to your depths of consciousness.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Amazing book. Helped me get rid of my anxiety.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Same thing over and over again with no actual guide as to how to live in the now.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      To be read again and again to glean more and more

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Insightful, clear and precise message from the great spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle. One needs to be ready to hear it and understand it, but when one is ready, it’s life changing.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A great eye opening, it made my vision wider. I loved it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      There are some seriously low points in this book but I still have to admit it did change the way I think about things and I did really enjoy it—with the exception of the chapter on 'enlightened relationships' which I had to skip. It is quite patronising and loopy in parts but I took it all with a grain of salt and did actually find it quite enlightening and full of interesting ideas.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is probably the best single book that I’ve ever come across. Although all teachers come to spirituality from their own point of view.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Similar in nature to stoic principles, live and let live, relax and just be, stop being so concerned with doing, thinking is the most common addiction... What I've taken from it so far is a refined understanding of Jesus, the Buddha, Alan Watts even, these underlying ideas that are beyond words and right at the edge of thought, and which are designed to take you beyond that thought and into the euphoria of pure presence. Now, I'm no stranger to this kind of meditation, and it was a welcoming feeling to see that it does have a bit of a description behind its inner workings through books like this.

      But.. is there really never a time for true suffering? "All pain is an illusion" "It is a molecular dance of energy" How can we use these terms while being tortured, I mean maybe it sounds extreme but I want to take these ideas to their limit. How do these spiritual ideas apply to states of extreme suffering?

      Some of it got a little repetitive and I think it could be even shorter, but that's only because I'm already familiar with the subject. As an introduction it does a great job.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I really did enjoy it, I tried reading this about 8 years ago and wasn’t ready for it. I feel though there is some opinions that are being communicated as undeniable facts without data to substantiate.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It is a great book, this is a life changing book.

      I am thankful for Mr. Eckhart

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Such and inspirational masterpiece. Has opened my eyes to many possibilities soon to cone!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I think everyone should read this at least once. Thanks for this book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It’s an eye-opening book I highly recommend to anyone who is interested in spirituality. I enjoyed not only the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, but also the Q&A format of the audiobook.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      So clean. But i need to listen it another time

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book can open up entirely a different world.lucky to read it

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This may be instrumental as birth right for every human being. Blessed are those who are ears to this here book

      1 person found this helpful