It’s no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 16 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of our Being, “the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback shows that only after regaining awareness of Being, liberated from Mind and intensely in the Now, is there Enlightenment.
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Amazon Customer –
I spent most of my life in a state of depression and anxiety. This book completely shifted and altered my understanding of myself and the universe.
It was this book that sparked my spiritual awakening and helped me to realise I am more than my mind and body. I am the consciousness in which everything arises.
My entire life has changed since this book and I cannot thank Eckhart Tolle enough and for the universe for bringing this book into my life.
Read it. Read it again. And then read it again. Soak it in.
In this book lies the secret to why we are here and the nature of all creation.
JE –
I read this book 25 years ago. I read it conscientiously but found it a bit bleak.
I felt compelled to read it again after I heard someone dismiss it recently.
This book certainly improves with age. Maybe I just have more emotional padding now. I have also been interested in the work of Steve Taylor, who references this book. Whatever the reason, I find the material more profound and useful second time round. The ideas in this book are powerful. But, whether I can implement them or not remains to be seen…
DONATO –
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Jack –
The power of now hat mir Möglichkeiten zur Bewältigung meiner Probleme geboten. Ich empfehle es daher weiter.
Cliente de Kindle –
Excelente Libro.. ✨ Gracias 🙌🏽 si estabas pensando en adquirirlo, esta es tu oportunidad y tu señal, te cambiará la vida y muchas de tus perspectivas.. Vivirás más feliz
Amazon Customer –
I read this book for the first time as a 24 year old student. Having just gone through a big painful breakup, it had a huge impact upon me. It lit a fire that has never died since. It triggered at the time a blissful, wonderful period where I felt as though there was so much beauty in every ordinary thing and song I could hardly breathe with it all.
This is not a book you read for self-help. It makes a mockery of such books, in fact. The self-help books that give your mind a focus, a mission, a purpose, the ego a cause… yeah, this isn’t that. Some people read it for that, and then throw it away scathing: “what was that, what kind of rubbish did I just set eyes on?”. If you’d notice – they’re quite passionate about it too. This stuff is too real. Rubs their ego the wrong way.
If you’re not ready for what this book has to offer – you may hate it, as some of the reviewers here did. You’ll talk of ‘incomprehensible drivel’, and ‘nonsense’. The reason they say this, is because they’re just not ready. It is that simple. It’s my believe that a person has to go through some pretty hefty horrible stuff in their lives to be really ready to ‘awaken’ traditionally. It’s a HARD process for a lot of people. You have to be ready to give up your old self. Ready to give up your old thinking patterns, old ego. You have to be done and tired with it. Those one star people are not. They like where they are, and are defined by their form level selves – they do not want to go any higher than that. It’s that plain and simple.
In fact – this is the most profound teaching I ever had the pleasure of finding. I’m 28 now, the book sits atop my shelves being regularly picked up. I am by no means a complete and enlightened person. I get dominated by thought, by ego, by pain sometimes, I’m human after all…, but now, I am able to find release and respite from it, I find full hours or even full days where such bliss fills me and quiet in my mind that it’s as though I were in a mini heaven… I don’t know how to describe the feeling but it’s like being one with God, all that is.
Two things to mention from the low reviews:
Stress is well recognised (alongside anger and other negative emotions) by the medical community to have a detrimental impact upon the physical body and ailments. There are uncountable numbers of studies to this end. This knowledge grows every day. Eckhart hones in on this. This is pure fact.
Focusing on the Now: does not mean forgetting the future. It means, and is explained in the book, as moving fully into this moment, surrendering to all that is, as completely and fully as you can, while remaining conscious of the fact that you still have ‘clock time’, but are not dominated by it as you once were. You use it to plan. To put things in a diary. To make a date. But that’s all. Other than that you pay brief visits to clock time, living mostly in the now. Most people pay brief visits to Now, living mostly in clock time. (Reminisce, envision future, reminisce, worry)
If you are,
A) Done with feeling as bad as you do
B) Ready to give up what no longer serves you
C) Ready to allow in a higher power some might call God, others may feel is simply, Home
D) A human being —
Then buy it and read it with as open a heart as you can. You will bloom.
Daniel Kerambrum –
Highly applicable, and reveals an important truth, that peace is achievable in any moment. I especially like his idea of an unconscious world or society, one which creates a collective pain – perhaps for another book, this is something to be delved into further.. with solutions. If you’re suffering pain right now, whatever kind (which feels endless), this book offers a path.
Manoj –
“The Power of Now” isn’t just a book, it’s an invitation to a revolution within yourself. It’s a call to break free from the mental treadmill of the past and future and experience the transformative power of the present moment.
Tolle, drawing on Eastern and Western philosophical and spiritual traditions, weaves a compelling narrative about the human condition. He identifies the mind, with its constant stream of thoughts and anxieties, as the primary source of our suffering. He doesn’t demonize the mind, but rather, he guides us towards transcending it and accessing a deeper level of Being, a place of stillness, peace, and joy.
The book is beautifully structured, with each chapter building upon the last. Tolle’s writing is profound yet accessible, filled with insightful anecdotes and practical exercises. He doesn’t offer quick fixes or empty promises, but rather, a clear path towards lasting inner transformation.
Here are some key takeaways:
• The present moment is the only reality: True peace and fulfillment can only be found in the Now, not in the past or the future.
• Watch your thoughts, don’t be identified by them: Observing your thoughts without judgment allows you to step back from the mental chatter and access a state of inner peace.
• Find the stillness within: The source of true joy and contentment lies not in external things, but in the unconditioned awareness of Being.
• Surrender to the flow of life: Trusting the unfolding of life’s moments, even the challenging ones, leads to a deeper sense of inner peace and acceptance.
If you’re ready to ditch the mental baggage and uncover the peace and joy that lies within yourself, then “The Power of Now” is a must-read. It’s a life-changing book that will leave you feeling more connected to yourself, to others, and to the present moment.
Prepare to be challenged, inspired, and ultimately transformed by this powerful book. Tolle’s message is simple yet profound, and has the potential to radically shift your perspective on life.
SvenRob –
If I had read this book 25 years ago, I would have struggled to really grasp what it talks about.
That has nothing to do with getting older. What is relevant is that it fully describes a state of enlightenment that I went through nearly 20 years ago.
At that time however I did not mentally understand it or even want to try. Everything was totally perfect just the way it was.
Tolle mentions somewhere else, maybe on You Tube that The Now cannot be desribed mentally, because it is beyond the mind. And it would be like trying to explain to someone who has never eaten honey, what it really tastes like. Volumes could be written and illustrated with explanations and beautiful pictures of bees and flowers and hives. But until that person actually tasted honey, it would be futile.
During my enlightened phase, or pure Presence, all my mental ramblings were no longer there, that was perhaps the most significant thing. Pure peace and listening to music as though I’d never heard it before, full of awe. Completely at ease yet totally alert and aware of everything as if with new eyes and ears. AND without identifying with things. I remember it dawning on me with great impact, “Wow, how come I’ve lived all my life like I have (In the Mind) and this is how it is really meant to be.
I will add, for skeptics that I was not under the influence of any illegal substances, nor ever have been.
These days however, whenever if sit in the garden in summer, I’ll be thinking “That Lavender needs trimming back, or I must cut the lawn, and then the hedge needs cutting.” Whilst the guy next door, has garden knee high in weeds and he’s dozing in his deck chair. Neither of us are “Present”.
Being present, I would be fully alert and very relaxed and see the plants and lawn, but would not be identifying it mentally and would just “feel” pure “joy” and a oneness with everything, timeless, no thoughts. Of course when I “Need” to think about something, like preparing lunch I can, BUT my mind will not keep running off in all different directions thinking, “Oh yes, that ham was a good price from Asda and I met Fred Smith in there who was telling me about their Janice who went to the dentist last week and had a root canal. When’s my dental appt due. By, that dentist I go to has got a real good car now……….” I would be fully focused on what I need to do to prepare lunch and giving it my full attention.
Perhaps the closest I had ever been to being Present, or in The Now , were rare times and even from childhood, (because kids are naturally more present} and very transitory too,was when I was stood in the middle of a woods and just listening and watching a babbling brook in a stream, and feeling completely peaceful and grounded and totally content. Pure consciosness, but within a few seconds… gone.
20 years ago, that state stayed with me for several weeks! And another very poignant thing is that I had this secure, grounded contentment that was not affected by anything externally. In other words, I would act upon things that needed it but did not “react”.
If driving and someone cut across my bows, I would act by applying the brakes but felt no anger or upset in the least. I am naturally quite patient and in instances where this does happen, I have learnt to be tolerant, and accept what is without reacting, but even with my patience, it still disturbs my equilibrium slightly. But I know mentally that it’s my ego that’s been bruised. HOW DARE you cut in front of ME!
That is all on the mental level and understood on the mental level.
BUT If I were totally in the NOW, as Tolle explains, and although I would be realistically aware and alert of the danger, my equilibrium would be undisturbed, and I would still retain the alert inner joy and acceptance of WHAT IS. Tolle is in this state permanently and is totally non egotistic.
Why do I need to sit on this laptop and write this. Basically it’s my ego. Look at me, read what I say, my life and my story, and whilst I type these wodrds I’m on a little bit of a buzz from it, but then it’s just another quick fix. I could get a real spin and use Facebook much more and get addicted. The Mind is in the driving seat far too much aided by modern technology.
I try not to get frustrated at not being able to “get back” to what I found 20 years ago, and I’ve tried and tried, and know it’s all still within, and remembering what that was like because I’ve “experienced it!” And I know mentally that all the searching and reading is futile. As Tolle says, we digest food but we don’t need to understand the digestion process.
I could go on and on…
I do sincerely hope that what I have written helps someone, and give it purpose.
I have read many books before this and many since in my quest but nothing at all compares with THE POWER of NOW. The other books are good too but it is all the fundementals are all here.
(Tolles interpretations of The Parables in the bible make sense to me. However, he says that Christ was just another great spiritual teacher like the others. But, Jesus claimed in many places, that he was the son of God. No other spiritual teacher ever claimed to be such. !!! ?)
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Ravi –
I have bought this book for dozens of individuals, and I’m happy to say, it’s done wonders to change people’s lives. It has gotten a lot of people I know through crippling anxiety and stress. It is a work of enlightened instruction.