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Summary: Don't pass this up
Review: Tolle does an excellent job of explaining how we each get caught up in our emotions and then provides concrete tools that really work to enable us to be with our emotions and others without getting drawn into the drama of the emotions. His techniques are helpful to realize how to "be" centered with yourself and with others in relationships. If you find you are often anxious, angry, depressed, and/or sad, buy this book and learn how you can be different.
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Summary: A difficult spiritual path
Review: The message of this book is quite simple but extremely difficult to practice. Unlike most books I review, this one can be easily summarized in a few sentences. Live in the moment --the past and future are illusory. All pain and dysfunction arise from the ego's insistence on avoiding the present moment. Of course, this is the basic teaching of all schools of Eastern mysticism, Zen in particular. Eckhart Tolle also quotes Jesus quite often, giving his words a different and less literal meaning. In it's tone and message, the book The Power of Now most reminds me of is A Course In Miracles. It may be my ego saying this, but I have to admit that I have some problems with both of these books. It is almost impossible to argue with the message of The Power of Now. Any healthy spiritual or psychological system encourages such a practice. It is the tone and attitude with which this message is delivered that makes me a little uncomfortable. It seems to me that there's a kind of dogmatism lurking beneath the surface here. Everything is presented in dualistic terms; we are either enlightened beings living in the Now OR we are lost souls living in the delusions of the ego. I tend to believe things are more on a continuum. There's a Buddhist saying I like, "samsara is nirvana." In other words, the idea that the world of illusion (samsara) is separate from nirvana (enlightenment) is itself a kind of illusion. I still recommend The Power of Now. Whatever your spiritual path --or even if you're not on one-- hearing these words can remind you of some valuable things.
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Summary: I found the Power of NOW through application
Review: I found out how true Eckhart Tolle's words were through applying them. I IMMEDIATELY found a deeper sense of peace. As Eckhart stated in the book, at first you'll only be able to be fully present for a few minutes at a time, then you will learn to live predominantly in the present. This has been my experience thus far, but I can honestly say that the few minutes that I am able to be in the Now are the most peaceful moments. I can hardly put the feeling into words. Buy the book, try it and you'll realize for yourself the power of living in the Now.
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Summary: Tolle, Yes/ Also read SB: 1 or God
Review: Spiritual enlightenment is one thing, and how to recieve it is another. The Power of Now is highly educating which brings strong reasoning and is not so difficult to apply if you so wish. Whether you agree with anything in the book or not, the premise will leave you rethinking for the better especially for personal advancement, no matter what your faith is. Indeed we need to be constantly educated and enlightened, Tolle has certainly done this at a minimum. A book I strongly suggest exploring which opens up a cache of understanding and spiritual enlightenment is SB: 1 or God by Karl Mark Maddox
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Summary: This Book Won't Change Your Life
Review: This book won't change your life, but you may experience your life in a wholly different way after reading it. I've read a lot of Buddhist-leaning self-help books. Many of them were quite inspirational, but none were as cogently written and humbly wise as this book. The book contains no lists or recipes for self-help. It just lays out the basic truths of our existence while acknowleging that reading and thinking about them is not a substitute for experiencing and being in the moment. Reading this book is like the whack across the backside. It will wake you up. The rest is up to you.
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Summary: Best book of spirituality and LIVE,
Review: Should be read at schools, and afterwarts. It's the onely (and last) book one needs to read about spirituality and live. Order NOW.
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Summary: Path of Happiness 'Live Now'
Review: A simple yet powerful message by Ekhart Tolle's - Live Now, live with the Present and you remain sailing on the sea of life. The author packs it with lots of infomation, messages floating with a clear, enthusiastic voice focusing on enlightened life, creativity and live genuinely in peace and happiness.It's a masterpiece of a new generation leaving behind the traumas of pain, suffering and adopting the method of staying 'afloat' n survive. The book has Eastern and Western spiritual teaching influence. Tolle believes in 'self', the true conscious living and not only believing in 'God'The Power of Now is living the 'Present' and accepting the 'I' as Arthur Deikman puts it, which is identical to awareness and one who is aware, Now is realised - So is this true. I recommend this book as a Spiritual self trainer to 'Let-go' off the pain n suffering and leave behind the scars to live in Present.
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Summary: A clear path to enlightenment
Review: Enlightenment ushers in the realizations of being. The import of the external world of perception fades while fear is revealed as illusory and the meaning of love is finally understood. We come to know that we are love attempting to express upon a third dimensional (physical) reality. Many of us grope, struggling in the darkness or worst, lost entirely within it while great teachers have repeatedly brought these truths to us. The way to enlightenment is clearly shown by teachers such as Eckhart Tolle. Those so inclined, do not wait for a friend to lend you Tolle's "book" nor should you consider the Tolle work just a book but a course on the Path and do not think that this "book" can just be read and put aside. It should be used until its information is inculcated at the cellular level and the objective of enlightenment is accomplished.
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Summary: Are you ready for this book?
Review: After 12 years of searching, reading hundreds of books leading me down lots of dead ends, and living a life on an emotional roller coaster, finally I read something that really speaks to me. This is a fantastic book to begin your journey towards "completeness". It has changed the way I think, like no other book. But that's where the cliché ends - don't expect your life to improve - mine has actually got worse! Intellectually/spiritually for the better, but internally it's turmoil, and I can only hope this is what mystics call "dark night of the soul", because surly it can't get any worse, can it? My girlfriend has gone, I sold my flash car, and I watched my attitude dissolve into humbleness due to difficult surroundings. As for worldly desires, I don't really have any except to try and make my life simple.Now once you have read and understood The Power of Now, you simply have to read "I AM THAT" by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. I know it's expensive (or at least in the UK it is), but trust me, I have this by my bedside always, and reading just a page or two before I sleep fills me with hope.
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Summary: Questioning Warnings
Review: ... The book seems to be a way of avoiding mental illness in that it gives people methods in which to view their own state of mind. If you know what state your mind is in, you are not identified with it, you can help it, or you can just let it be as it is. I can't think of anything better for someone with an illness. ... Personally, I have found this book to be very understandable, but of course there are some things that I don't really get. It can sometimes get tiring continually watching oneself, but I think I have become a lot more truthful with myself and others, and I have a greatly improved knowledge of what is going on in my self...
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