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Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice, and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness.
Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence, and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolize "break time." This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson
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It's no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 2 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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The manual for enlightenment.......2007-10-25
I love Tolle's work and I would highly recommend it along with FREE YOUR MIND by Anthony Stultz if you like a step-by-step approach to awakening.
Awesome!.......2007-10-20
This is one of the best "how to" books on spirituality I have ever read! I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it.
Life Changing.......2007-10-18
This is a beautifully written book by Eckhart Tolle. It is filled with his his wisdom and teachings of how to live in the moment. Using his meditations as a tool, it brings the reader into spiritual enlightenment that is life changing.
A must read for those on a spiritual journey.......2007-10-17
What can I say but buy it, new or used, read and start
applying. I fortunately attend a book reading group on
Saturday evening. There are 10-11 at each reading. We
are reading, what else, "Power of Now." Great to hear
how it is working in other people's life. Just buy
and read and see what happens.
Peace!
Joel
Read with your spirit and not just with your mind.......2007-10-15
I never believed in spiritual "mumbo-jumbo" I have been and am still very practical, realistic and rational person. However one day I experienced spirit (alive peace within) accidentally and recognized that that's what I truly am. However my mind got very scared of that experience and I decided to forget all about it and carry on my life as usual.
However a lingering reminder and longing for that peace remained. Now I am in a stage where that longing can no longer be ignored or denied. My mind got confused with lot of questions and I found myself split internally. This book "The power of Now" literally found me and reached me exactly at the time I needed it.
Looking at title "Step by step guide to enlightenment", my mind smiled and said "how can enlightenment be described as step by step thing to do. This is absurd."
But as I read it, it made a lot of sense, I would see my mind getting quieter as I read and my spirit taking over. Every statement resonated as truth to the real me. Reading this book had effect of deep meditation to me.
I feel shift in my level of consciousness after reading and practicing the teachings.
This book is to be read with spirit / awareness / presence / consciousness. If you read with mind alone, you will miss the point, find it repetitive and boring.
If you have had experienced your true essence or have an intuitive feel that there is more to you than just mind in a bag of skin then this book will make sense to you and accelerate process of awakening.
After reading this book I also recommend book "A new earth .." by same author.
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- a good way to look at life
- El poder del ahora
- Un libro que siempre me acompañará .
- Uno de los mejores libros que he leido en mi vida.
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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Eckhart Tolle begins this best-selling spiritual guide with his own story — a tale of early despair that culminated in a tremendous experience of awakening one night soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle’s galvanizing realization was that the mind is the enemy of enlightenment, and that individuals contain the source of their own pain. The Power of Now explores these issues in depth and uncovers fresh ways of living a more fulfilling life. Now available to Spanish-language readers, the book shows how a combination of Buddhist principles, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory can connect the reader to “the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.”
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a good way to look at life .......2007-06-08
THE more I read it the more I enjoy my everydays life, people is getting used to complain and to get anxious about the future and they forget to live their beautiful lives, everybody's life is beautiful...and I have learned to enjoy life more since I read this book, highly recommended for those who keep worrying and never enjoy life.
El poder del ahora.......2006-09-26
El poder del ahora es un libro para releer una y otra vez, y cada vez que lo haga, usted lograra profundizar mas y encontrar nuevos significados. Muchas personas querran estudiarlo toda la vida, pues es una guia, un curso completo de meditacion y realizacion. Es un libro con elpoder de cambiar vidas, de despertamos para comprender plenamente quienes somos. El mensaje de Tolle es el mismo que Christo y Buda ensenaron: se puede alcanzar un estado de iluminacion, de realizacion espiritual, aqui y ahora. Es posible liberanos del sufrimiento, de la ansiedad y la neurosis de la vida diaria. Para logario solo tenemos que llegar a comprender que la causa de nuestros problemas no son los demas, ni "el mundo de alla afuera", sino nuestra propiamente, aparentemente incapaz de concentrarse en el ahora por estar siempre pensando en el pasando y preocupandose por el futuro.
--- from book's back cover
Un libro que siempre me acompañará ........2004-06-18
Un libro verdaderamente extraordinario, el Sr. Tolle hace algo que resulta muy difícil para muchos autores lograr y es lo siguiente:
"Transmitir de forma sencilla la verdad esencial de la vida, logrando predisponernos en un estado mental libre. El siguiente paso, depende de cada uno de nosotros.
Y lo que sigue a continuacion, no forma parte del pensamiento y la palabra escrita".
Uno de los mejores libros que he leido en mi vida........2003-06-23
Sencillamente un libro transformador y liberador. Recomiendo releerlo una y otra vez. El Sr. Tolle logra comunicar y explicar con palabras sencillas el error fundamental de la humanidad y porque percibimos al mundo como lo hacemos. No pierda esta oportunidad unica.
Great Great Book.......2003-02-18
This is the only book I wish I could carry into my next life.
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- Instead get the unabridged tapes of The Power of Now
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Entering the Now (Power of Now)
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Contains two audio tapes totaling approximately 165 minutes. The tapes are from live teaching events and were chosen specifically to augment the book THE POWER OF NOW: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. The titles of the audio tapes are: "Living the Liberated Life" and "Dealing with the Pain-body." Readers of the book will find these audio tapes to be powerful additions to their understanding of and their ability to live the practices in the book. In them, Eckhart Tolle goes more deeply into the teachings. Increased depth and fresh perspectives are added, not only through the words, but through the author's energetic presence conveyed so effectively through his voice.
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Instead get the unabridged tapes of The Power of Now.......2001-09-21
I only listened to 15 minutes of this set of tapes, but am so happy that I got the unabridged tapes of the author reading "The Power of Now" instead. This seemed to have little specific to add to the stunning material of "The Power of Now." It seems to be a mudily recorded lecture tape. "The Power of Now" is the single most helpful book on/of spiritual material that I have ever read. It is clear, pragmatic, concise and fills in gaps between other spiritual materials/traditions. It tops "A Course in Miracles". I eagerly await the companion workbook due out Oct 2001.
Companion to the Power of Now audio tapes, vol. 1.......2001-05-24
After reading someone's negative feedback about this audio tape set, I almost didn't purchase it. On second thought, I realized that my desire to connect with more of Eckhart's energy was strong enough to purchase the tapes anyway. I had already read Eckhart's book several times and was very impressed by his clarity and obvious sense of presence. He wasn't just talking about it, he expressed it without effort. After listening to the tapes myself, I felt inclined to voice my own opinion about them. There is a depth to these tapes which reaches beyond intellectual understanding. The tapes open the receptive listener to other dimensions of awareness. I recommend these tapes to anyone who has the ears to hear not only Eckhart's words, but that which resides between the words.
Finding 'Peace' in the power of now........2001-04-21
I ordered the companion to the 'Power of Now' instead of the first volume. I was impressed and so was my husband who is not a self-help person. Eckhart has a soothing voice with an English accent - the tapes are a recording of one of his seminars. On my journey to finding 'peace ' within myself, I have found that practicing 'being in the present', is one of the roads to this inner peace. Most of us live in the past or future (didn't realise it till now). The tapes are a helpful tool to have in this crazy world of confusion and, to calm the mind with it's excessive inner chatter. You will learn about our 'Pain Bodies'in reaction to angry situations and in seeing it in others when they are in pain. This has helped me towards my self-development. I found that in helping to deal with the 'Pain Body', 'Stuart Wilde's' teachings (Start with 'Life Was Never Meant to be a Struggle') go hand in hand with 'The Power of Now'. I recommend you listen to it when you have some 'quite time' as it is very relaxing but full of information.
Disappointed.......2001-04-09
The tapes do not add much to the fine book that Mr. Tolle wrote. I give his book 5 stars. It is wonderful, clear, concise and illuminating. A sense of peace seems to emanate from his words. I was expecting more of the same from the tapes; I didn't get it. I was hoping for elaboration and answers. When I read the book I formulated many questions in my mind that I would have liked to have answered. None of them were. As to elaboration, there is a bit concerning the pain body on tape 2, but not enough, and tape 1 is a rather inarticulate rehash of other material in the book. Mr Tolle's tone seems smug at times; it cast a slight negative shadow on my very positive impression of him and his work. I was very disappointed by the tapes.
I am somewhat surprised by the other reviews which are so positive. I've only listened to the tapes once so maybe I'm judging them too harshly, on the other hand I have no desire to listen to them again.
The Gift of Presence.......2000-09-12
Eckart Tolle, Vancouver based spiritual teacher and Banyen Books' longtime #1 bestselling author of THE POWER OF NOW, brings his compelling message of Presence - the new state of consciousness that is emerging on the planet - to us on this first set of live teaching tapes. Eckhart gently guides us to the allowing and choosing of this state of intense aliveness in which we can live free of thought, free of problems, free of suffering and free of conflict, being fully alert, fully awake and fully present. Deeply touching time and time again is the simplicity and beauty of Eckhart's profound message. Regardless of the number of times these tapes are listened to, the message seems fresh, new and something different is heard. Eckhart speaks to the human condition of unconsciousness with love, compassion and wisdom. The vibrantly alive energy field experienced through Eckhart's voice is enriched by his delightful sense of humor and creates a delicious softening in the heart center, filling one with immense gratitude.
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An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society.
Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning.
Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change-the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale.
Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.
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Wonderfully instructive Real eye opener.......2006-06-09
What an intriguing book. Not at all what I expected since I had assumed that materialism and toss out rather than repair was something that became the norm after WW2. The book says this actually happened close to one hundred years earlier. Interesting that during the Great Depression advertisers told people that buying, even on credit would be good. That changed when WW2 happened and sugar, gas etc were rationed, and people were once again encouraged to grow a vegetable garden, mend items rather than toss out.
Reading of the mid 1800's how women saved all clothing however well worn, and either repaired or torn apart to make into braided rugs etc reminded me of my paternal grandmother whom I can still see sitting in a comfortable chair making what once was shirts, dresses, skirts into large braided rugs for various rooms in our house.
Also enjoyed reading how even in New York city in the early 1900's had people who kept pigs in their back yards or basements. How no food scrap went to waste, because food wastes were either fed to the animals or put into a compost pile which would become rich fertile soil.
The information the author shares concerning flour sacks was really interesting, because I had long known that women would save, wash flour, seed, food sacks and make them into wearable clothing. But I had no idea that these sacks had washable dyes so that the women could wash them and have a pretty printed sack clothe, to make items. I also didn't know that women would take worn sheets, cut them down the middle and then sew both good sides together to get double duty out of the bed sheet.
Living in a cottage here in the Mother Lode of California where the California gold rush began, I am well aware that people didn't have garbage dumps where they could take empty bottles etc. So as you dig in the back yards around here you encounter scads of blue, clear, amber colored bottles that must have held medicines or other home items in the 1800's. Writing on page 112 the author shares how 'cities passed antidumping ordinances throughout the nineteenth century, but many people ignored them'. And that 'Periodic epidemics renewed the pressure on lawmakers to pass new regulations, to establish boards of health, or make special appropriations for cleaning up particularly bad messes'. Reminds me of anti-littering laws we have and the dreaded EPA toxic waste sites. Seems little has changed in some ways.
One page 120 the author writes 'Urban America discovered the 'garbage problem' in the late 1880's and early 1890's writes historian Martin Melosi; addressing it was the second step in the sanitary reformers' campaign, after clean water and good sewers.' Something to think about when one studies the various illnesses that were around when open sewers, contaminated well water etc were a constant concern. Wish more people would stop and think about what a blessing the modern sewer plant is, in preventing major illnesses, often life threatening of the past.
The book also is an excellent reminder of how much we waste and how much stuff 'we' buy that we neither need nor want. And a reminder of how much usable waste like kitchen scraps we put down modern day garbage disposal, instead of into backyard compost containers.
What makes todays mode of recycling so different from decades and even centuries past is the fact that in the past, people didn't seem to spend or waste money on things they neither needed or wanted since hard cold cash was so hard to come by, or required such hard work to earn, that when one did have money they were much more frugal. In 2006 and recent years, people recycle or have yard sales not because they have old items they no longer need, but all to often because they have newer items they often have become bored with, and need to donate or sell. Not the waste not, want not way of living our ancestors knew.
Massively, stunningly unreadable.......2006-03-04
Waste and Want is a book in the same way that 10,000 pennies are $100. Technically it is correct. But it is less useful and more tedious than one would like. Ms. Strasser has assembled this book like an old time ransom note. But instead of using words cut out from magazines, she used 568 citiations.
A ransom note is short, direct and to the point. Waste and Want cannot be accused of these traits. Most of the quotes appear to come from old household manuals, for example, the 1835 edition of The American Frugal Housewife. (Imagine some future historian expounding on the 21st centry american household using Martha Stewart as her main source.)
The book is massively, stunningly unreadable.
If your opinion is that all waste is evil, you might be able to stomach it. But otherwise read Rubbish by William Rathje - much more enjoyable and educational.
Thought-provoking.......2004-03-22
This book is a history of household waste in the United States and what we have done with it over the years. Although Strasser takes her research as far back as colonial times, most of the focus is on the habits of the Nineteenth Century, and how they evolved with our changing society. The first chapter introduces the central theme of the book, how in the past, especially before the turn of the Twentieth Century, waste products served as raw materials for other products. In other words, before we ever invented the word "recycling", practically everything was recycled. Over the past 100 years, this has changed, so that now recycling seems like a new idea. Whereas in the past, cities and households constituted one component of a closed production/consumption system that included manufacturers, following the age of industrialization and mass production, that system has broken apart, and there is now a one-way flow from the factories to the consumers. And this flow leads eventually to mountains of garbage, for which we currently seem to have no better solution than mass burial.
Strasser begins her story by describing an archeological dig of a 1620s settlement, where matching pieces of potshards were discovered at great distances from each other, suggesting that if a pot was broken, residents might have been in the habit of reusing the pieces for other purposes. Social history is notoriously hard to reconstruct, since people of the time rarely thought the details of their daily lives important enough to document. This is especially true with the topic of waste, refuse, and garbage. But by carefully picking through such items as housekeeping manuals and business accounting ledgers, Strasser was able to pull many of the pieces of the garbage story together. She found that in the Nineteenth Century, household food scraps were fed to chickens and pigs. Metal and wood items were repaired or refashioned. Before the age of industrial looms, fabric of any kind had much greater value, since all but the very youngest of children were well aware of the tremendous labor involved in weaving cloth. Even after mass-produced fabrics became available, clothing was still stitched, often by hand, at home. For this reason, clothing often symbolized a bond between the producer and the wearer. It was never simply discarded, but rather mended, passed on to others, taken apart and refashioned into new garments, or made into quilts or rugs. As a last resort, it would be used as bandages or sold to the ragman.
The phenomenon of the ragman, as Strasser describes him, is particularly fascinating. This was a person who would make the rounds of rural homes with a motley collection of manufactured goods for sale, such as tin dishpans or soap. For payment, he would accept rags, fats, and bones. These items he would ship off to warehouses to be used as raw materials for paper, soap, and fertilizer. As Strasser puts it "The very distribution system that brought manufactured goods to consumers took recyclable materials back to factories."
Despite these widespread collection networks, early Nineteenth Century factories suffered continuously from a shortage of raw materials, and labor was also relatively scarce in North America. This led to the development of new industrial processes that relied on mass production techniques, which became dependent on new materials rather than recycled ones. This change, combined with the increasing urbanization of society, began to result in garbage and other unwanted items piling up inside and outside people's houses, soon leading to the need for municipal waste collection services. But no sooner had cities organized a collection system than a new problem cropped up: "Paradoxically, the more trash collection there was, the more trash was generated," as Strasser observes. In just the 4 years between 1903 and 1907, the amount of garbage collected by the city of Pittsburgh, for example, increased by 43%. Cities tried various methods to deal with these huge and growing mounds of garbage, from dumping the stuff in water, to piling it up in poor people's neighborhoods, to incinerating it. Significantly, what all of these methods had in common was that sorting of garbage by composition, such as organic material, metal, and glass, was no longer relevant. Cities which once universally required refuse sorting by households rescinded their laws, and it wasn't until the landfill crises of the 1990s that such laws began to be considered again as part of mandatory recycling programs.
This book is filled with many other thought-provoking and interesting topics, such as the history and impact of the Salvation Army and Goodwill, and the patriotic scrap collecting campaigns of the World Wars. Strasser's style is clear and interesting, academic without being stuffy. This is a great resource for anyone interested in material culture, ecology, or American history.
A Treasure based on Trash.......2000-03-01
Exceptionally fine read! Discusses with fascinating clarity what, on the surface, would appear to be a repellant subject. American History has a whole new meaning. This book answers the unspoken questions of "what DID they do with...." in an orderly, systematic yet very interesting way. Who would have known garbage could be so riveting?
Well written, without technical jargon and extremely well organized. Strausser has turned a sow's ear into a silk purse. Excellent discussion of the why and how of our detritus disposal through the ages right up through the Hippie revival of the 70's and the Recycling Exchange on the internet today.
I can highly recommend this book to anyone with even a slight interest in the cycle and re-cycle of our castoffs. The integral involvement of the homemaker in early days was a genuine eye-opener and a sparkling promise of future possibilities for us all.
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- The kind of wordplay jokes that children love
- ...on why our nation is going downhill.
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101 Wacky State Jokes
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The kind of wordplay jokes that children love.......2006-06-24
This book contains a series of jokes where the gag is often a play on words. For example, one of the jokes about Wisconsin is:
What did the girl say when she saw the milk carton start walking across the table?
Look at the Milk-walkee!
As someone who has had to listen to children tell me their jokes and riddles, I can say that in my experience these are jokes that young children love. There seems to be a special place in their sense of humor for jokes based on a play on words. I have heard hundreds of such jokes and the ones in this book are some of the best. Reading them will also help the child learn about the states, as nearly all of them are based on some fact about that state. I recommend this book as a simple educational tool that will also be fun to read. Not just silently but to the parent when the child needs to attract some humorous attention.
...on why our nation is going downhill........2000-07-28
All right. First off, I'd like to say that when I was younger I read ALL these 101 Wacky Whatever books, just about. Fortunately, I think I managed to keep an intact sense of humor despite that. (I think you can tell where this review is going.) Anyway, this book is FULL of inane jokes, many of which are actually funny in the fact they're so horrendously awful. In fact, considering that, the book gains at least one star. Most of the jokes DO make sense, though, meaning that if you study them for any length of time you can generally find what was supposed to be funny about it. Aside from ONE joke that I'll tell you here... anyone reading this, in subsequent reviews, please post any hints you have on this: "When Nebraska was being settled, there were many clashes between the settlers and the Indians. One battle left a settler badly wounded. A doctor arrived and asked the man 'Are you in great pain?' 'Only when I laugh!' gasped the settler."
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