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Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence, and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolize "break time." This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson
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Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolise "break time". This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Climb the Signpost,
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This review is from: The Power Of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Tolle's book is an important one... a much needed reminder that is too easy to forget. All too often people can pass entire lifetimes 'missing the moment.' One can, like the worst type of junkie, become so comfortable with-and so used to-anxiety, worry, and procrastination that to simply experience tranquility in the present becomes an impossibility. For such people, the simple and inspirational teachings that The Power of Now details can incite a revolution in one's experience of being alive. That being said, though, this book possesses flaws and confusions that must be sifted through using a keen sense of criticism (yes, this too, is an important faculty of the healthy human being).First of all, becoming present is a practice-not a realization. I'm not sure Tolle makes this clear. Like any 'new thing' the appreciation of the present moment can seem novel and exciting but if one doesn't make it a practice and use discipline to habitualize the practice, then one will have merely another gimmick, a spiritual toy to play with for a while and then put aside. The reason why all the schools of enlightenment require masters and students and instills its practitioners with discipline and a set of methods is because nothing in life comes all at once but must be cultivated with care over a period of time. Because of this truth, I genuinely doubt Tolle's claim that after his midnight awakening he was-all-at-once-transformed, never to require further training or practice. The experience he describes at the beginning of the book might just as well be labeled a psychotic break as a religious experience. Either way, the genuine appreciation of the moment can neither be totally 'on' nor totally 'off.' It is a variable experience that can be developed but will always remain part of the organic experience of being alive. Be wary of those who seem to show no anger, no sadness, no flaw... such people are usually very good actors and nothing more. Spend time with such people, in different types of contexts, to reveal the true human being. No unidimensional personality can exist in reality. We are always part of our context and environment and no matter our training or character can be expected to occasionally fall short of others' expectations. A guide to enlightenment, then, should teach us that enlightenment is neither a great distance away nor too near. It is thoughtful experience revealed through action and word. I have seen car mechanics who are enlightened beings when they work on cars but atrocious when with their families. I have met novelists who convey all the wisdom in the world through a pen but seem haughty and fractured in normal human conversation. And I have met spiritual 'masters' who secretly creep away to have sex for the sixth time in a day or to check their stocks on the internet. Enlightenment is a myth, and some people treat it like a commodity to purchase or sell. To live well requires the experience of the present-often-but not all the time and in all situations. Joseph Campbell once expressed the opinion that the type of enlightenment we have become familiar with is unique to a conception of self that was once fairly common in Asia. The type of self most moderns live by, especially we very 'special' Westerners with our love for 'Individuality' and 'Self-Expression,' excludes the possibility of such an experience. Perhaps it is time, then, we drop this idea and redefine what enlightenment should mean now-and to people like us. Use this book as a pointer and compass, not as a map. The Buddha said it best, Be Lamps Unto Yourselves. I would add-and don't hide from the dark when it comes.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Words are stepping stones to be left behind as quickly as possible,
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This review is from: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
"The Power of Now" is an excellent book! Mr. Tolle claims that we can "break out of the inherited collective mind patterns that have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons" by finding our true nature beyond name and form. Well that's a pretty tall order for a book. How do we find our true nature?
Well, according to Tolle, our thinking and emotions are reflected in the body and shows up there as pain/sensation. Every painful thought and emotion that we have ever had leaves behind a residue of pain in the body. This pain merges with pain from the past and accumulates in what he calls the "pain body." Our emotions are stored in the pain body and if we don't bring the light of consciousness into the pain we will be forced to re-live these emotions again and again. But when we bring the light of consciousness into the pain body and directly feel its energy it can no longer control our thinking. Our mind then becomes a wonderful tool because we are now no longer trapped in it. So we can reclaim consciousness from the mind by taking the focus away from our thinking and directing it toward our body. Awareness of our body keeps us present and anchors us in the now. The way to our true nature is through the body, not away from it. Unless we stay present in our body we will continue to be mechanically run by our mind -- does the name Pavlov ring a bell? I have discovered a way to put this material in "The Power of Now" to the test--experientially. There is a course where we can bring the light of consciousness into the pain body and systematically reduce our mental conditioning and we can do this in a controlled environment for 10 days? We can find our true nature, our deeper Self rooted in Being and you can find out how in The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation by William Hart.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Change your way of thinking!,
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This review is from: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
The Power of Now...what can I say! I have read many "self help" books in my time,and let me tell you this is the absolute best! If you are suffering from any kind of depression, low self esteem, anger, hurt, fear, and the list goes on, this book will change your entire way of thinking. I am 60 years old and have been unwell for at least 40 of those years. Medication, Dr's, therapy, hospitals, you name it, I've been there! The man is a wonder, and has first hand experience himself. It's very easy to read and you will absorb every word and stop and think about what you have just read. This book has changed my entire way of thinking. If you are suffering, please read the book. It is one of many Tolle has written and I plan to read them all.
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