The Power of Now (By Eckhart Tolle)

The Power of Now

~ Written by Eckhart Tolle ~
(Book review by Vimal Kodai)

Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle has hereby written a book which fills the hearts of its readers with a splendid torch of enlightenment as it replenishes bundles of spiritual insights and pure spiritual knowledge and guidance with the true mighty art of an author-spiritual teacher. There are simply no words which could truly describe the potential guidance which will adorn the lives of those who master this very book’s intense messages with thoroughness. This very book of Tolle’s captures its audience with so much intensity that it does not let go of the readers’ eyes for not even a tiny fraction of a second. It does not prevent readers from truly finishing reading it, and thus, this allows them to utilise the essential knowledge gained from it with full ease and soothing comfort. The attempt of the writer, Eckhart Tolle, is to have humans understand the true values of life’s riches and wonders while fleeing the rough seas that invade ones lives with misunderstanding and true misguidance. There is a very important and crucial message which is being addressed in this book of Tolle’s as the latter sticks with the idea of residing in the present tense, the ‘Now’, which is in fact the main theme of this book of his.

 The writer wants his readers to reflect on the true potentials of the mind and what it can certainly do with great intensity as it has abilities to transform a human being from the latter’s downsides of depression and isolation to the comfort zones of prospect and spiritual enlightenment.  Eckhart Tolle indicates with so much conviction that the ‘unbelievable’ becomes reality as it surpasses the immeasurable and infinite knowledge which only and only, the one and only kind, Homo sapiens, has the absolute blessed abilities of acquiring through their unmatched faith and devotion. The awakening of the body, mind and soul; the surviving impossible  circumstances in one’s life; the accepting of the absolute truth as the topmost ideal; the differentiating between the manifest and the unmanifest; the separating oneself from “the insanely complex world of continuous problems”; the explanation of the word Being and how God realistically pacifies one from the incessant noise which prevents one from finding the inner peace within the self; and, many other themes that connect the readers with the idea of finding solutions to the “Unbelievable but true” unsolved mysteries of the gateway to unlocking the power of ‘Now’, are all strategically identified and justified with profoundness and with a deep sense of connectedness by the writer of this masterpiece.

 The ideology which lies behind The Power of Now is not simply to dwell and reside in the ‘Now’’, but it is to be capable of handling present situations, and of fully acknowledging the future objectives and goals set forth on ones pathway to spiritual enlightenment. The author-spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle, states that he has no intention of teaching his readers what consciousness and awakening is really about, but he wants them to listen to themselves. He wants us to be our own teachers and create our own teachings without setting boundaries that would put a halt to the glorious paths of spiritually illuminating our minds and our own selves. He has a very particular taste of distinguishing between what the ‘Now’ really is, and what the power of ‘Now’ will reinstate in the lives of those who adopt a frank and honest inspiration of its nature and obvious powers. The Power of Now cannot touch the feelings of someone who reads it without letting him/her find his/her own true self with a sense of know-how or a desire to completely surrender to the idea of reclaiming the mind as the light which will relieve him/her from all the miseries and sorrows encountered. 

The Power of Now is designed to take us from the extreme limits of conflicts and pain to the enlightening pathways of spiritual knowledge, spiritual bliss and spiritual fortune. Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now wants this evil nature which is nothing else but our own ego, to be left behind and terminated for good so that one is led to accept the challenging journeys with faithfulness, uncomplicated clarity of the mind, and, entirely focused on the inner energy field of ones body, mind and soul. The Power of Now charms its audience with much intensity and it creates plenty of harmony and peace in the lives of those who would choose to adopt the strategies, or merely and simply, the fruitful knowledge which sheds such a glow of inspiration and positive insight to every single situation which strikes at the heart of a human being as being impossible to handle and incapable of being resolved. The Power of Now is the book to read as it has the ability to enlighten the mind with no such fuss, no misguidance, no misunderstanding or misconception. It is one such marvel of a spiritual book which was released at the dawn of this 21^st century.