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Summary: Don't waste your time...
Review: I picked this up, flipped through the intro and remainder of book, and couldn't see myself wasting my time on this book.The author comes with no qualifications whatsoever, and his mumble jumble sounds like a man with a bigger ego wanna be heard kinda rant. Honestly, I saw nothing in this book for me, maybe you will, but I didn't.
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Summary: One of the Better Books on This Topic. Impactful, Helpful.
Review: This is a powerful book on this subject. Better written than many, more impactful than most. It is clear that the author has depth of knowledge and conveys it overtly and subtly. If you like this topic, you should read this book. I also highly recommend "Effortless Wellbeing: The Missing Ingredients for Authentic Wellness" by Evan Finer as a book that covers the how-to of wellness and now-ness in a very concise and potent way. Both of these books have depth and power and will profoundly help a person who reads with an open mind in a receptive state. They are good compliments to each other. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Waste of time
Review: Wow, what a disappointment. I can't believe how bad this book is. Even though I enjoy "New Age" thinking, this book made my eyes roll back into my head. It felt pretentious bordering on the absurd. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: now is the time
Review: I have suffered with depression and obbsesive compulsive disorder for years. I have a religious background, and was taught that we are essentialy bad and have to work hard at being good. What I was realy being taught was how to be an obedient person who did not question anything. I am a psychology student and realise what depression is about. If things are going wrong in our life, and it is not the way we want it to be, then we can create a sense of permanence and certainty by retreating into a self made prison of depression. In our prison we can feel safe and secure, but the cost is high. A lot of people with mental health problems interact with the world through the medium of depresion. This medium can restrict the posability of a joyful life, and can reinforce a downward spiral into further depression and posible psychosis (and other mental health problems). The ego part of me wants to stay in this prison, but, "I" do not. The trouble is, I have spent so long in this prison, that I no longer trust my perceptions and thoughts about the outside world. My ideas obout the outside have been out of touch. I am an intravert, and intraverts who have been abused end up having to control, and keep things in order. Is everything clean, is everything tidy, is everything in order. A fragile sense of self who's main occupation is to keep chaos at bay by making sure that everything is in its place. Some will understand what I am saying. I have come to realise that the way out of my prison is in this moment (and no other). The ego has to let go and embrace what is. My intuition says to me that Tolle is telling a universal truth. I realise that I am out of touch with reality. This realisation though is strange and enticing. I entered into madness because of the preasure i had as a child. Paranoid power and preasure can distort the way a child constructs the world. A fantasy construction is a desperate attempt at self preservation, which the child assembles when their is no way out of their predicement. The family is all they know. If the family is in a huge power struggle, and the child is blamed for it,then, what can the kid do but enter into the same denial and madness. (because parents are ignorent, and do not want to see dysfunction in there "maridge". They would rather see it in the
child) I am 35, and in the spce of 5 years I have gradualy deconstructed my fantsy world and embrsced the real one. This is not easy. The very foundation of who i am is being challenged. Entering this moment is to be reborn.
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Summary: Try reading Gangaji, she's the goods
Review: For the same information delivered with more elegance, authenticity, and passion, read anything by a woman in Northern California named Gangaji. She lives and radiates what Eckhart tries so hard to intellectualize. Also try to see a video of one of her talks--the light in her eyes and in her laugh reflects the truth of her words and goes straight to your heart. It's like the difference between reading a very good cookbook and feasting on a divine meal....Gangaji is satisfying beyond the intellect. Not a best-seller, at least not yet, but she's the real deal.
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Summary: Not one I would recommend
Review: I began listening to this book on tape with great anticipation due to the positive reviews it has received and the idea of learning to live more in the present. I was turned off by the poor writing, subjectivity of the ideas, lack of fresh ideas, discarding of timeless scriptural doctrines in favor of doctrine based on the author's personal experiences and opinions (what sounds and feels good), and the repetition of thoughts over and over. The author is appealing to what we know to be true--that to live in the present is the key to faith, joy and contentment, among other virtues. He also knows that we would all like to believe that all paths lead to God, no matter what we call him/her, and we can all find him/her and the truth in ourselves and experience enlightenment by disciplining our thoughts. It reminds me of the Celestine Prophecies, another book I found to be based on inane ideas and consisting of poor writing. I think you will feel the same about this book as you did that one, which was also very popular. Throw Deepak Chopra in the same group. This book is similar to his "insights" on knowing God. The audiotape is read by the author who just plain sounds goofy. This book should land under the humor section. Tolle's idea of enlightenment is nothing new. He pales in comparison to scriptures, classic philosophy and literature and even to modern motivational writers like Zig Ziglar, Rober Schuller, Norman Vincent Peale, John Maxwell, Anthony Robbins, Robert Collier, Thomas Merton, Og Mandino, etc. Their writing is head and shoulders above this drivel. Keep this book in the context of centuries of spiritual writing that the author disparages based on his personal "enlightenment."
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Summary: The book is. The Now Is
Review: Over the past week or so I have read Eckhart Tolle's amazing book The Power of Now. I am in awe of it's simplicity and power. To describe the essence of this book is to take away from it's very intention. It is not a book to be described, or really even rated. It is a book to be lived. I am telling everyone I know to read this book. Get the book. Read the book. Live the book. The book is.
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Summary: FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK!!!
Review: Awe man... This is an awesomely inspiring book on living in the present moment! The cool thing about this living in the present moment stuff is that if you think, "how do I experience this?", you've already lost it. It's crazy! It rocks to understand that the great people in the world can be in this state under the crappiest circumstances. But these great people were not just born that way, they grew into it. And maybe you and I can some day too! "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato is an all-out wicked book on how some of us end up becoming like that. It's all in how our mind develops! It's part of evolution! It's a long-term job of whoever is up there man! Dude! Read this stuff and be inspired! After all, this is what the world has to offer, FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK!
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Summary: Great Book, Live in the Present
Review: After reading many many books by several empowering authors such as Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dalai Lama, Marianne Williamson, and Tiffany Snow, that I am still reading, my life has opened up to me in such a compelling and wonderful way. This new book is well written, and thought provoking. There are great transforming authors, who shift the consciousness of humankind in a way never known before. The "Power of Now" is one of those.
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Summary: Peace and Joy in the Moment
Review: I have heard the concepts in Ekhart's book before, but its very enlightening to remember them through his words. The book takes you quickly into a deeper state of being NOW!!!! It is an enlightened place between words and thoughts. However, the very act of reading Ekhart's words quickly reduces them into a human concept which resides in the past! Luckily he gives you a few ways to access your deeper self NOW. But besides that, its a very easy book to read. I believe that if we as a human race could all get more into the present moment of our lives, the world would be a more beauitful place. Its time that the human race had an enlightenment revolution. Good message Ekhart!! Thank you. Rock On...
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