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Average rating3.5
Eckhart Tolle has emerged as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a worldwide bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory but is also eminently practical. In The Power of Now he shows readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. Accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned, he says, by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully, and intensely, in the Now."
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2.5 stars = ok/good, did not finish but might reread.
I gave this book 2.5 stars because while some of it really resonates, a lot of it is just too out there for me right now. I might enjoy it and maybe even finish it later on. I'm not spiritual, but spiritually curious. This book definitely helped me tap in a bit more. I would also agree with others that the Q & A writing style for this book is borderline obnoxious.