The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle
The Power Of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is self-help book of guide to day to day living and stresses by Eckhart Tolle, published in 1997.
The book draws from a spread of “spiritual traditions”, and has been described by one reviewer as “Buddhism”. Mixed with mysticism and a couple of references to Jesus. Its core message is that people’s emotional problems rooted in their identification with their minds. The author writes that a private should remember of their “present moment” rather than losing themselves in worry and anxiety. You can download from below and buy from amazon if you want.
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.
Eckhart Tolle is emerging as one of today’s most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a word-of-mouth bestseller in Canada, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory but is also eminently practical. In The Power of Now he shows readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. Accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned, he says, by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living present, fully, and intensely, in the Now.
Book : Table of Contents
Introduction
The origin of this book
The truth that is within you
1. You are not your mind
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment
Freeing yourself from your mind
Enlightenment : rising above thought
Emotion : the body’s reaction to your mind
2. Consciousness : the way out of pain
Create no more pain in the present
Past pain : dissolving the pain-body
Ego identification with the pain-body
The origin of fear
The ego’s search for wholeness
3. Moving deeply into the now
Don’t seek your self in the mind
End the delusion of time
Nothing exists outside the now
The key to the spiritual dimension
Accessing the power of the now
Letting go of psychological time
The insanity of psychological time
Negativity and suffering have their roots in time
Finding the life underneath your life situation
All problems are illusions of the mind
A quantum leap in the evolution of consciousness
The joy of being
4. Mind strategies for avoiding the now
Loss of now : the core delusion
Ordinary unconsciousness and deep unconsciousness
What are they seeking?
Dissolving ordinary unconsciousness
Freedom from unhappiness
Wherever you are, be there totally
The inner purpose of your life’s journey
The past cannot survive in your presence
5. The state of presence
It’s not what you think it is
The esoteric meaning of “waiting”
Beauty arises in the stillness of your presence
Realizing pure consciousness
Christ : the reality of your divine presence
6. The inner body
Being is your deepest self
Look beyond the words
Finding your invisible and indestructible reality
Connecting with the inner body
Transformation through the body
Sermon on the body
Have deep roots within
Before you enter the body, forgive
Your link with the unmanifested
Slowing down the aging process
Strengthening the immune system
Let the breath take you into the body
Creative use of mind
The art of listening
7. Portals into the unmanifested
Going deeply into the body
The source of Chi
Dreamless sleep
Other portals
Silence
Space
The true nature of space and time
Conscious death
8. Enlightened relationships
Enter the now from wherever you are
Love/hate relationships
Addiction and the search for wholeness
From addictive to enlightened relationships
Relationships as spiritual practice
Why women are closer to enlightenment
Dissolving the collective female pain-body
Give up the relationship with yourself
9. Beyond happiness and unhappiness there is peace
The higher good beyond good and bad
The end of your life drama
Impermanence and the cycles of life
Using and relinquishing negativity
The nature of compassion
Toward a different order of reality
10. The meaning of surrender
Acceptance of the now
From mind energy to spiritual energy
Surrender in personal relationships
Transforming illness into enlightenment
When disaster strikes
Transforming suffering into peace
The way of the cross
The power to choose
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the author.
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Author(s): Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: New World Library, Year: 2004
ISBN: 1577314808,9781577314806
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