The Flowering of Human Consciousness
Eckhart Tolle Teachings
E c k h a r t T o l l e
One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the beggar. "I have nothing to give you," said the stranger. Then he asked: "What's that you're sitting on?" "Nothing, " replied the beggar. "Just an old box. I've been sitting on it for as long as I can remember. "Ever look inside?," asked the stranger. "No," said the beggar. "What's the point, there's nothing in there." "Have a look inside," insisted the stranger. The beggar, reluctantly, managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold. I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself. Eckhart Tolle, form The Power Of NOW
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| ◊ This site is dedicated to spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle ◊ Truth-seekers will appreciate his universal teachings - teachings ◊ Tolle is a contemporary master who is not aligned with any particular religion, doctrine or guru.
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~ Publisher's Preface from the The Power of Now, by Marc Allen
Perhaps once in a decade, or even once in a generation, a book like The Power of Now comes along. It is more than a book; there is a living energy in it, one you can probably feel as you hold it. It has the power to create an experience in readers, and change their lives for the better.
The Power of Now was first published in Canada, and the Canadian publisher, Connie Kellough, told me she heard repeated stories of positive changes and even miracles that have happened once people got into the book. "Readers call in," she said. "And so many of them tell me of the wonderful healings, transformations, and increased joy they are experiencing because they have embraced this book."
The book makes me aware that every moment of my life is a miracle. This is absolutely true, whether I realize it or not. And The Power of Now, over and over, shows me how to realize it.
From the first page of his writing, it is clear that Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary master. He is not aligned with any particular religion or doctrine or guru; his teaching embraces the heart, the essence, of all other traditions, and contradicts none of them - Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, indigenous, or anything else. He is able to do what all the great masters have done: to show us, in simple and clear language, that the way, the truth, and the light is within us.
Eckhart Tolle begins by briefly introducing us to his story - a story of early depression and despair that culminated in a tremendous experience of awakening one night not long after his twenty-ninth birthday. For the past twenty years, he had reflected on that experience, meditated, and deepened his understanding.
In the last decade, he had become a world-class teacher, a great soul with a great message, one that Christ taught, one that Buddha taught: a state of enlightenment is attainable, here and now. It is possible to live free of suffering, free of anxiety and neurosis. To do this, we have to come to understand our role as the creator of our pain; our own mind causes our problems, not other people, not "the world out there." It is our own mind, with its nearly constant stream of thoughts, thinking about the past, worrying about the future. We make the great mistake of identifying with our mind, thinking that's who we are - when, in fact, we are far greater beings.
Over and over, Eckhart Tolle shows us how to connect with what he calls our Being: Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still, when you are present, fully and intensely in the Now...To regain awareness of Being and to abide in that state of 'feeling-realization' is enlightenment.
The Power of Now is nearly impossible to read straight through - it requires you to put it down periodically and reflect on the words and apply then to your own life experience. It is a complete guide, a complete course, in meditation and realization. It is a book to be revisited again and again - and each time you revisit it, you gain new depth and meaning. It is a book that many people, including me, will want to study for a lifetime.
The Power of Now has a growing number of devoted readers, it has already been called a masterpiece; whatever it is called, however it is described, it is a book with the power to change lives, the power to awaken us to fully realize who we are.
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