235 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2004 by Namaste Pub., New World Library.
To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the beginning of the first chapter we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes a lighter air, the air of the spiritual. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question and answer format to guide us. The words themselves are the signposts. The book is a guide to spiritual awakening from a man who has emerged as one of this generation's clearest, most inspiring teachers. Eckhart Tolle is not aligned with any particular religion but does what all the great masters have done: shows that the way, the truth, and the light already exist within each of us.
One or two nigh-inconsequential headscratching points aside, I can see myself recommending this to people. I enjoyed the opportunity to put its main message to work, and was rewarded with peace and insight. Give this a try if you're plagued by anxiety and weighted with grudges.
This book is a cluster headache printed on paper. It spools endlessly, or at least seems so. Repetitive, condescending, vague, unhelpful, and beyond everything else, exceptionally dull.
I did not pay for this book. In that sense, it's the books only redeeming quality. I have no physical book to deal with, so in the end there won't be any waste.
I only regret that I cannot tear the pages out and set it on fire. Although, for the time I lost reading this crap, I very well might buy a paperback version just to set it on fire.
Truly a horrible book. Awful. If you doubt any of it, what is the first thing that comes to mind when a nasty little male germanic troll rails on for pages about menstruation? Yeah, you've got first hand knowledge of that, sure.
This is a headache on paper.
