The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle

Description

This book can change your life

The Power of Now is intended to be a guide for day-to-day living and stresses the importance of living in the present moment and avoiding thoughts of the past or future.

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 page of Eckhart Tolle’s extraordinary book The Power of Now, 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.

What The Power of Now is about

The book draws from a variety of “spiritual traditions”, and has been described by one reviewer as “Buddhism mixed with mysticism and a few references to Jesus Christ, a sort of New Age re-working of Zen.” It uses these traditions to describe a “belief system based on living in the present moment”.

Its core message is that people’s emotional problems are rooted in their identification with their minds. Eckhart writes that an individual should be aware of their “present moment” instead of losing themselves in worry and anxiety about the past or future.

According to the book, only the present moment is important, and both an individual’s past and future are created by their thoughts. Eckhart maintains that people’s insistence that they have control of their life is an illusion “that only brings pain”. The book also describes methods of relaxation and meditation to aid readers in anchoring themselves in the present. These suggestions include slowing down life by avoiding multitasking, spending time in nature, and letting go of worries about the future.