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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Name: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Rating: 5 (22 reviews)
Author: Eckhart Tolle
ISBN: 9781577311522

Eckhart Tolle · 2004 · 208 pages

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.

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Oprah Winfrey
“Meg Ryan and Ellen DeGeneres gave me copies of this book, and it's gotten me through more crises than I can count. It truly helped me discover how to live in the now—to not linger on past mistakes, but to learn from them and then let them go. For me, this is the Mama Jama of super-soulful books. At every moment, it keeps me in a state of awe and amazement.”↗
Justin Kan
“Here’s my ranked reading list from the past year. These books have changed my life! The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership Leadership and Self-Deception The Score Takes Care of Itself The Way to Love Playing to Win The Power of Now Can’t Hurt Me Atomic Habits”↗
Kristen Ulmer
“It was so powerful because it outlines non-dual states—a.k.a something bigger than my own personal, limited view of the world.”↗
Alanis Morissette
“It’s just a superclassic book that I’ve reread probably four times.”↗
Matt Ogus
“Absolutely life changing and I have to thank Eckhart Tolle for opening my eyes and helping me see what has always been and always will be. My experience and view of my life and the world is completely different than one month ago”↗
Pete Holmes
“@BisqaMusic power of now! I love it on CD, hearing him read it helps”↗
Oprah
“Meg Ryan and Ellen DeGeneres gave me copies of this book, and it’s gotten me through more crises than I can count. It truly helped me discover how to live in the now—to not linger on past mistakes, but to learn from them and then let them go. For me, this is the Mama Jama of super-soulful books. At every moment, it keeps me in a state of awe and amazement.”↗
Britney Spears
“This is a book I return to again and again. It’s been helpful to me in difficult moments.”↗
Trevor Ncube
“@NesbertC This book changed my life.”↗
Dounia Tazi
“The Power of Now and The Secret were two books that added onto me greatly earlier in my journey Understanding that we can take space from our thoughts & allow our mind to simplify (meditation) and then understanding our creative abilities (manifestation)”↗
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