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Summary: A DEEP BREATH OF FRESH AIR
Review: Take a deep breath and relax. You have found a guide to inner sanctuary. Sanctuary is inside of us. This book teaches us how to lose the anxiety and gain a sense of peace with ourselves and our present life. Wonderful. I also like I Talked To God And He Wants To Talk To You. It's alot heavier but in the end it too makes you feel light.
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Summary: Pure Billiance
Review: Think lifes boring? Looking for lifes magic? It's right Here and now, but the mind will never see it. To live in a state of 'no mind' where all your attention or awareness is not in the mind, you'll see what TRUE love is and you'll feel the timeless heaven of which you are apart. I only hope that I can experience this reality more and more, as letting go of my thoughts, having sent so long living in them, is easier said than done. Good luck to everyone who is trying to let go of their minds. I wish you all the greatest success. Love Pete x.
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Summary: not practical
Review: The theme you heard many times "live in the present".This is great advice ,but for most people i would say almost all, not practical.How can some rate this book 5 stars when i am willing to bet very few will be changed to any great degree with this book .This information is as old as time itself and reveals nothing that is new.The problem with this and many other self help books is that word are just that if there is no practicality in application it is relatively useless.
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Summary: A Timeless Resource
Review: Who would imagine that a concept so simple as the NOW could be so easily forgotten?! How could you forget what is?! Well, after struggling with the premise that there are no problems, and really working to get my arms around Tolle's teaching of the NOW, I was hungry for more practical applications! I could finally intuit the concept, but wanted ways to practice staying in the NOW. I was turned onto another resource called Present Moment Awareness that gave me clarity of the NOW in simple and practical terms. (So practical that I made it a required reading for my students.) So, now the two books sit together at my bedside. I thank you, Tolle, for compelling me to get present, and I thank you, Duncan, for teaching me how to stay present.
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Summary: Finally, The Truth - How Great an Adventure Is That?!
Review: The reason Eckhart Tolle's teachings continue to attract and hold the rapt attention of so many around the world is because his calm and sure words reach into and capture souls. He makes no demands on the reader nor does he claim that he himself - or any other single entity that ever walked the earth is the only one with the final answer. He reminds us over and over that EVERYONE has a direct connection to God, regardless of what our description of God may be - and that there is a way for each of us to become conscious of that magnificent power. His teachings don't include the promotion or endorsement of any organized form of religion nor do they warn that if we don't follow them, we'll go to hell. He doesn't condemn or discount any established religion or sysem of belief for what they teach as truth - despite the fact that many of them have criticized, discredited and even warned against him. Truth is still and silent and needs no sword or shield. By simply telling of his own transformation from ego nature to absolute Truth, he encourages and inspires us to become that too. And for those of us who listen and HEAR, it's the beginning whole new life. How great an adventure is that?!
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Summary: Wow. Just wow.
Review: I have had a keen interest in liberation for 25+ years; I know the literature well - Eastern and Western, ancient and modern. I know of no teacher who sees the human situation so clearly, describes it with such clarity and economy, and provides such brilliant guidance on awakening beyond that human situation. I've had an on-again, off-again urge to write on this vital topic myself over these years. This guy has relieved me of that burden - he sees more clearly than I, expresses it better, and provides guidance past pitfalls I was unaware of. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Eckhart Tolle!!!
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Summary: A wonderfully simple idea described with too many words
Review: The idea is simple yet immensely powerful. Living in the "Now", the "present". I've tried, and yes a lot of life's problems can be solved. If God gave us messages, this message would be one of them. On the other hand, maybe it was God who made Mr. Tolle give this message to us. It is so true and so powerful. However, this book would be even more powerful if it was half the length it currently is, and if it was written more simply. The message itself attains its power from its simplicity, so why not make the delivery of the message as simple as possible too? That is why I have suggested Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch in addition or insetad of this book which contains such powerful messages in such a simplistic voice which is the sign of a Godly message. As a sidenote: I am very impressed by Mr. Tolle's powerful experience that led him from suffering to where he is today. It truly helped me understand what he meant in the book.
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Summary: The end of fear
Review: Waking up is as natural as sleeping. I am able to see the drama of my life unfolding in front of me. The ego is like a continuing play which repeats itself endlesly. I see my life (and those around me)like a script and I am amazed. The freedom Tolle talkes about is awe inspiring and I can feel its power. It is like a beutiful land in the distence which I can see and feel. A foot in the old and a foot in the new. I am an addict, and i see my addiction wanting to hold me. Adiction gives me clarity to see what it is that I am avoiding. What I am avoiding is simple, it is the "now", it is life itself. I am free. The resistence to this freedom will I hope disolve.
1)observe the pain, depresion whatever.(observe ure atachment to it)
2)Acknowledge that it is there.
3)Dont fight it or resist it.
4)Be still. This bring you in to the now, and I am amazed at the transformation which can potentialy occure.
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Summary: The How of the Now
Review: About thirty years ago I was walking through an art gallery and I read a sign that said "All we ever have is now". It struck me so profoundly that I have posted it in every one of my art studios since, as a reminder to stay in the present. However, I didn't know how to help myself to be in the now for more that just fleeting seconds. This book told me how.
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Summary: Some truths and a whole lot of HOOEY
Review: Yes, there is quite a bit to be learned from this book. However, there is quite a bit of garbage in it, too. The present need not be sequestered so totally from the past and future. By insisting on freedom from all but the now, Tolle recommends total restriction. There are ways to regard past and future without being bound or defined by them and without allowing the present to lose its meaning. Tolle's limitations need not become your own. The past can have meaning and the future can be contemplated without a collapse of the lustre of the present. All things have meaning -- there are more portals than the ones Tolle deems valid. I enjoyed reading this book -- partly because I enjoy kicking ideas around, and partly because Tolle illuminates the essence of some large ideas with the light of his own limited outlook. Fellow readers and seekers -- don't fall for a system this limited. Meaning, truth, being, whatever words you want to use to describe aspects of the ineffable, are not subject to Tolle's limits.
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