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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by: Eckhart Tolle List Price: CDN$ 14.81 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 11.36 You Save: CDN$3.45 (23%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 204.4 EAN: 9781577314806 ISBN: 1577314808 Label: New World Library Manufacturer: New World Library Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2004-08 Publisher: New World Library Studio: New World Library Sales Rank: 67 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.co.uk: Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness. Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolise "break time". This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson Chronique amazon.fr: Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness. Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolise "break time". This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - The idea is fabulous, but the presentation is lackingAfter reading this book, only one clean idea emergies: The idea of the power of now is great. Living in the now and not worrying so much about the past and future is very uplifting and has helped me. When you live in the now, your life is more joyful. However, I frequently found that Tolle talks over my head, using language such as "pain body" and "unmanifested". He does explain these words, but the explainations can be hard to follow at times. Furthermore, the question and answer format Tolle uses is distracting. Sometimes the questions he poses are good and follow what he has been saying, but others the questions seem to come from inside his head and the answers make even less sense then the questions. ... Read More: Rating:  - The Power of NowHow much of your day is actually spent completely focused in the here and now? When you are working, how often do you find your mind wandering? How much of your time is spent thinking about what you are going to do next weekend or wishing you'd handled a particular situation differently? The majority of us spend most of our life fixated on the past or worrying about the future. The present is just something that we gloss over until we realize that we missed out on something. Then, we yearn to have that day back. What we tend to forget is that all we really have is now. The past is gone it no longer exists, except in memory. These experiences can't be changed in any way. Dream or worry about the future as much as you ... Read More: Rating: - Puts into words what we already knowI heartily recommend this book, and yet I can also see where some of the negative reviews come from. I try re-reading these words from past perspectives, and can understand those who view it as fake, baloney, mumbo jumbo, etc. But I can assure you that there is more to it than that, and the people for whom this book makes sense are not blindly following a bestseller, they are simply gravitating towards a truth they've started seeing on their own. From the first pages this book keeps that truth right under your nose, but it's ultimately you who is reading it, and who has to decide for yourself. Tolle does not propose anything new in this book (indeed he speaks of things which the wisest of our species have known for millennia) ... Read More: Rating:  - A manual to awakeningI really like this book and the book that came with it-FREE YOUR MIND by Anthony Stultz-together they offer real change for a clearer life. Rating: - Spiritual Inspiration or Charlatanism?People need to cling to something, particularly in a spiritually desolate age like the one we live in. The Power of Now has reached mountainous heights of popularity to the point of becoming implanted in popular culture. But charlatism doesn't rear it's ugly head as vigirous as Tolle, unleasing ideas that have been expressed in countless ways by countless writers, philosophers and in religions since the beginning of time. Tolle evangelizes his beliefs with almost suffocating condescension. The book is styled as a manuscript of a question/answer seminar, in a similar way to PD Ouspensky's The Fourth Way. This enhances the message that Tolle aims to expound - that happiness lies in the eternal now, and that the source grief for many lies in our occupation ... Read More: |
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