The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a self help book by Eckhart Tolle which seeks to bring about a transformation of human consciousness. It has been on the New York Times Best Seller list and has been translated into 33 languages. The book focuses on spirituality and promotes no one religious tradition. [read more] |
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The Power of Now has been widely recognized as
one of the most influential spiritual books of our time. A #1 New York
Times bestseller, it has been translated into over 30 languages. The
book has helped countless people around the globe awaken to the
spiritual dimension in their lives, find inner peace, increased joy and
more harmonious relationships
To make the journey into The Power
of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created
self, the ego, behind. From the beginning of the first chapter we move
rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes a
lighter air, the air of the spiritual. Although the journey is
challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question and
answer format to guide us. The words themselves are the signposts.
For
many of us there are new discoveries to be made along the way: we are
not our mind; we can find our way out of psychological pain; authentic
human power is found by surrendering to the Now. We also find out that
the body is actually one of the keys to entry into a state of inner
peace, as are the silence and space all around us. Indeed, access is
everywhere available. These access points, or portals, can all be used
to bring us into the Now, the present moment, where problems do not
exist. It is here we find our joy and are able to embrace our true
selves. It is here we discover that we are already complete and perfect.
Many
of us will find that our biggest obstacle to this realization is our
relationships, especially our intimate relationships. But again, we are
in new territory and all is not what it had seemed before. We come to
see that our relationships are yet another doorway into spiritual
enlightenment if we use them wisely, meaning if we use them to become
more conscious and therefore more loving human beings. The result? Real
communion between self and others.
If we are able to be fully
present and take each step in the Now; if we are able to feel the
reality of such things as the inner-body, surrender, forgiveness, and
the Unmanifested, we will be opening ourselves to the transforming
experience of The Power of Now.
