Customer Reviews:
 You can awaken too..... July 13, 2008
Michael J. Henry
I read this book at a time when I was absolutely delusional. I'm so glad that I suffered through all my neurotic BS for years and years, because if I had been content with what most people consider to be a good life I would have never awakened. Now that I'm beginning to deepen my understanding I thought I'd throw this review up for others to read.
I see how important it is for me to put this out there because nothing matters more than realizing the truth....not accepting some dogma which most people have done and continue to live with their filters which limit their ability to live in reality. Nothing matters more than this (not this book, but what the book may be able to bring about inside yourself); not money, fame, sex/any other shallow pleasure, your ambitions, past, not your family/relationships (not saying they aren't important...but ultimately relationships can be a hindrance if you are ignorant of the nature of their essence), and no idea of happiness or love that the majority of the humans on this planet buy into will make your life meaningful. All of these things may bring you some feeling of importance and acceptance...some pleasure....these pale in comparison to being able to live in wonder, with REAL joy and love.
I had thought I knew what love was....I do now, and I know that most people aren't able to love....but we all have potential. I now know what bliss is...can you feel bliss from owning a big house or landing a lucrative career....can you feel love for everything by "becoming" an educated person with a nice office where you can display how great and smart you are, lining the walls with diplomas, certificates and awards? Will that person (or people) whom you long after completely fulfill you once your long thought out relationship plan comes to fruition? If you reflect on what you have wanted in the past and thought about obtaining and realize that it didn't fulfill you...it might have made you excited and anxious thinking about how great it would be once you got it...but then you get that thing and you loose interest in it...you look for something else you can think about obtaining, and the cycle just keeps you in this confused state of distraction from what is truly significant in life...the ONLY thing which is available to EVERYONE.
I could say the present moment is all there is and how great it is and how everything else is an illusion and give you a logical basis which can't be refuted....but don't take my word for it...find out yourself. Do you know what a spider is?....when you asked "what's that" pointing to a "spider" your Dad might have said..."oh, that's a spider"; so now you can't see the spider, tree, birds or flowers because all you see is their labels. This gets so deep (I haven't fully realized the depth...each day is astonishingly new and insightful) and I want to share this with everyone...and you will too if you realize how trite the "American dream" is.
You can go to school, get a good job, be in happy relationships and buy nice things AND realize that there is more to life....but please do yourself (and the rest of us) a favor and find out what is truly meaningful before you accept that your secure and highly planned out path to successful happiness with all your beliefs, ideas and opinions will hold water. I'm not saying drop your dreams, I'm saying find out what it is that you DO HAVE...that you always have...that you will always have...because you will never have anything else (speaking in the absolute). I hope you find out for yourself and maybe you can help others find out as well...there is nothing better you can do with your life than help someone find out.
Ego's Every Angle July 12, 2008
Paula (Seattle)
Katie Davis, author Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment, gave me this book recently after attending an intensive with her and her husband, Sundance Burke, author Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being, and I am really glad. Power of Now is a clear and wonderful book. It is obvious that Eckhart has studied every angle, strategy and position that the ego could possibly have.
 nothing new July 12, 2008
anonymous (Miami Beach, Florida)
boring book. nothing new. i don't know what the hype is about. these are not original ideas and the style drags.
fab July 9, 2008
Sandra Bates (az)
sometimes hard to get through but very good concept and oh so true. read through a few times till you get it
The Power of Now July 6, 2008
Moji (Eugene, OR USA)
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When I stated my goals at the beginning of 2008, I had something different in mind than the usual "lose some weight, be more active, more considerate, etc." Although more success than ever in terms of community respect,an amazing growing business, great friends, incredible husband,and a wonderful child have graced my life for many years, I felt something deeper missing that I could not put my finger on. So my 2008 goal stated simply " I want to be Astonished at This Life, This Opportunity once again." I was answered, so quickly, so profoundly by Life itself in the form of Eckhart Tolle and "A New Earth" and "The Power of Now." To effectively counteract the radical changes we are now experiencing upon the Earth we must change within ourselves. These books give us the key that was always there in front of us, the friend we never acknowledge because we constantly look to the past or the future to "live" our lives. That greatest of friends is the Present, the NOW -and I deeply thank Eckhart for reminding me of this gift.
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