From the library
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, 1997
In one paragraph
A spiritual guide to living in the present moment, exploring how to transcend ego-based thinking and find peace through present-moment awareness.
Also tagged
Where this sits in the operating system
Focus & Essentialism
Purpose & Meaning
Compound Leverage
Key insights
The voice narrating your experience is not you, and noticing the difference is the entire practice.
Most suffering is time-based: regret about the past, anxiety about the future, neither present in the moment producing it.
No cosmology and no method beyond attention, which makes it either liberating or frustratingly thin depending on the reader.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Using presence concepts to avoid taking action
Making spirituality another ego identity
Forcing stillness or trying too hard to be present
Judging others for being unconscious
Using "acceptance" to avoid necessary changes
The same idea, argued differently
Ben Horowitz
Seneca
Angela Duckworth
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Eckhart Tolle
- Published
- 1997
- Category
- Self-Help
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