The Power of Now

by Eckhart Tolle

eBook

English language

Published Dec. 25, 2010 by New World Library.

OCLC Number:: 45731129

(15 reviews)

Eckhart Tolle has emerged as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a worldwide bestseller, 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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2 stars

This is, by all accounts, not a good book. The bulk of it is about, essentially, mindfulness. Live in the current moment and act in the current moment, don’t internalize the past or future, just act accordingly. Look to be part of something larger.

The downside is that he dives deep into the woo woo. There’s something beautiful about the woo when it’s an ancient tradition, I suppose, and things like the Tao are things I can visualize. But when he talks about the inner body and feeling the vibration of individual cells, he’s lost me.

There’s an attempt here to syncretize a number of different traditions, and I’m happy for you if Tolle’s advice works, but it didn’t do it for me.