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Summary: Wisdom
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone on the path of enlightenment and self-discovery. Actually, I would recommend this book to almost anyone. After the first reading, I have gone back to it again and again, just picking it up and reading a bit here or there. It helps me to remember my true priorities and what's really going on with my life. To me, it is a huge "reality check". Eckhart Tolle explains things in a very simple way that helps me see them in a totally new light. Yet, at the same time, I feel that this book is in total agreement with some of the best spiritual writings that I have been exposed to. Again, highly recommended. However, a caution is needed: reading this book has the potential to radically change your beliefs and possibly your life.
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Summary: If you're of a philosophical or intellectual bent . . .
Review: . . . you may have some difficulty with this book. I'm always a little unnerved when an author claims to have found the one and only truth. Tolle can seem a little glib at times, and a bit over the top. That said, there's a lot of helpful commentary and suggestions in this book. If you're working from a Buddhist orientation, or if you're struggling with anxiety, this book can be very useful--it offers some new angles on dealing with common life-problems.
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Summary: Experiencing your true Presence
Review: I have read this book three times now and each time strikes and even deeper impact. I have read many other books since reading Mr Tolle's Power of Now which deal with inner realization but I always return to his simple truth of Living in the Now. After reading his book, I literally walked around for quite some time feeling a sense of complete aliveness within my body. I began to experience who I am with a deep sense of stillness. I allowed this experience to happen to me because his simple profound understanding of slowing down the noise of our mind was presented in such an experiential manner that you immediately experience the ring of deep truth behind his words.
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Summary: **MOST SIGNIFICANT SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE OF THIS CENTURY**
Review: Don't let this book's seeming simplicity fool you - it takes you to the most profound depths. Eckhart Tolle could well be the most significant spiritual influence of this century because he is so un-affiliated with any one tradition, yet represents the essence of them all. For those who thought A Course in Miracles couldn't be summarized, or the Gospels understood without parable or Buddhism explained without paradox, then read this book. If you have any doubt about that Eckhart Tolle has fully awakened to God consciousness, then listen to his tapes and all doubt will be removed. His tapes can take you deep into presence. Go to his website "eckharttolle" to see his speaking schedule. You will not want to miss seeing him in person.
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Summary: Life changing!
Review: In this day and age when just about every book, film or TV program is lauded as "unbelievable" or "incredible," Tolle's book comes along and actually deserves the praise. Over the years, I have read many new age, pop psychology, spiritual, and self-help books, some of which resonated, some of which did not, all of which left me still hungry, still a bit empty. Tolle's book is the real deal. I could be wrong, of course, but I cannot imagine ever needing another spiritual guide because Tolle explains our basic nature in such easy, self-evident (but forgotten) terms. Cliches aside, this book truly has changed my life.
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Summary: A book for skeptics.
Review: I admit it, I'm a scientific skeptic and annoyed by "new age speak" and unsubstantiated claims of spiritual powers and enlightenment. So when my girlfriend recommended I read Tolle's book about the "now experience", I was incredulous. However, I quickly realized Tolle's book in a category by its self. No grandiose claims, panacea remedies, or motivational empowerment here. His penetrating insights will make you STOP what you are doing, and I guess that's the point. The "now awareness" Tolle describes is available to everyone (new age seeker, or skeptic). My girlfriend and I have finally found common ground. If nothing else, it's a breath of sanity. Read it before you die.
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Summary: Buy it NOW!
Review: I have read over 150 self help books over the course of my life. I feel like Tolle sums up everything in one. Profoundly changing my life. So simple yet so deep. I got the books on tape and now every commute is a trip of blissful awareness. The amazing thing too, is that every time I listen to a tape, I hear something new and mindblowing. Any negative review about this book or these tapes is coming from a person who is stuck in their ego and doesn't really want to change for the better. Don't let your ego talk you into passing on this one. The time to hit the shopping cart button is...you guessed it.
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Summary: The Power Of Now
Review: The most profound "How To" book on meditation I have ever read. Mr. Tolle speaks from personal experience as he guides the reader into a deeper encounter with one's own spiritual essence. Then, he lays the groundwork for both reaching a higher conciousness, and bringing hightend awareness into everyday living. Reading this book and listening to it on tape, have been wonderfully powerful and, most rewarding.
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Summary: A "Must Have" Book for Any Spiritual Pilgrim
Review: Wow. This is as much a landmark in post-1980 spiritual literature as "The Road Less Traveled." Any student of "A Course in Miracles" (as I am), any Buddhist, any 12-Step Program participant, any devotee of "Conversations with God" -- hell, anyone at all! -- will have the means to deepen their experience of God after reading this book. Thank you to all the Amazon reviewers who recommended this! Thank YOU, Mr. Tolle!! I can't possibly give it enough stars. (And if you like this book, I would also recommend you check out Anthony DeMello's book, Awareness, too.)
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Summary: Leaves you in a glow of bliss!
Review: If you want to read one book and one book only to change your way of thinking, buy this book. The principles that Mr. Tolle proposes are so simple and should be intuitive for any sane human being and like many things, we forget and ignore the most obvious. Most of the book is in a question and answer format. Some questions are simple and explanations are simple. Most questions are profound and answers are equally profound. After reading the entire book, the last question interviewer asks on the last page is probably every one wants to ask Mr. Tolle. His answer(read the book and only look at the answer after you finished the entire book) is dramatic, succinct and bliss-provoking. I carry this book in my brief case all the time. You never know when you need an uplifting message!
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