[ book tip by Nathan G ] From one century to another, spiritual seekers have journeyed down innumerable paths in the quest for meaning. Bound in time, we march on in our search for the answers to life’s big questions. But what if we have been looking in the wrong places? What if we are not to fulfil ourselves in some distant future, or find meaning in some idealised past? What if, instead, we centred ourselves, turned inward, and came to know that everything is NOW?

It is true that each moment of life is lived in the present. But how far can we take that? According to The Power of Now, it all depends on how far we are prepared to release our grip on personal notions of identity, truth and reality. The power of this book hinges on our willingness to turn inward and surrender what we know to the present moment.

It is in the NOW that we find the completeness and the peace that we truly are.

Through questions and answers, the book teaches with sublime simplicity. Eckhart Tolle effortlessly takes us into more creative, intuitive realms of understanding. It is not about coercion or persuasion, but the illumination of a truth found in all of us. Shedding our staunch rationality and leaving the worldly ego-attachments of the mind behind, the open-hearted reader is freed from the knots and ties of the analytical mind.

The Power of Now opens up vast new expanses of possibility, contributing to a heightened awareness and facilitating a deeper level of consciousness. We learn that by not projecting our lives into the past and future, we can come to know the totality of existence in the moment of NOW.
 
Reading this book is like looking through a polished window. It is like witnessing the truth of peace and love that we are all entitled to. Translated into over thirty languages, The Power of Now is a wonderful spiritual text that will continue to drive human evolution forward. It is a work of transformation – a book of awakening, of global significance.

[ Favourite quote ] 'Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.'

[ book info ] Tolle, Eckhart: The Power of Now. A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. (Book language: English) Hodder and Stoughton, 2001 . ISBN: ISBN 13: 9780340733509 ISBN 10: 0340733500 .