Eckhart Tolle

Is it possible that the simple act of being is not actually that simple? That to really be here now requires practice, like any other skill worth learning?

This book itself is a transformational device that has come out of the arising new consciousness. The ideas and concepts presented here may be important, but they are secondary. They are no more than signposts pointing toward awakening. As you read, a shift takes place within you.

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher who has lived in Vancouver since 1996. His first book of teachings—The Power of Now—is presented simply in an effective question-and-answer format, and has been read by millions of people around the world since 1998. It is now translated into 30 languages.

If you go about your day trapped in the realm of thinking, it’s difficult if not impossible to free yourself from stress and anxiety—and the interpersonal suffering that goes along with it. But if you’re rooted in the Now, explains Eckhart Tolle, you’re already standing in a place of deep fulfillment.

It’s all too easy to let anxious thoughts of scarcity and lack rule the day. Fortunately, Eckhart Tolle has some liberating news: your greatest, sweetest treasure can be found in the richness of “presence”—here and now.

Imagine carrying around a radio that constantly complains, criticizes, brings up past regrets, and frets about the future. Does this sound familiar? "When the thinking mind never stops speaking," teaches Eckhart Tolle, "we can come to believe that this egoic self is who we are." But we are not our thoughts.

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