On Monday 5th July 2021 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle.

In this summary of The Power of Now, I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

In the introduction, Eckhart talks about how he became a spiritual teacher and how the book was created. The book isn’t written like most books but is a combination of questions and answers, with lots of the questions being questions that Eckhart had been asked by others.

Then the book is split into 10 chapters. The book explores ideas around enlightenment, consciousness, fear, pleasure, presence, and happiness.

Throughout the whole book, Eckhart talks about the importance of being in the now. He shares why it is important to spend as much time as possible in the now and then gives you strategies to help maximise your time in this state. As far as Eckhart is concerned people are too obsessed with the past and the future, and both don’t really exist. We can only make changes in the present moment, which is why we focus on being in the now.

The book also about being able to be able to disidentify with your mind. For Eckhart, it is key that you are able to act as an observer or witness of your mind. Creating this gap between you and your mind allows you to create more moments of consciousness.

As you can tell these aren’t exactly the easiest of concepts to get your head around but the question and answer format means that there is a good chance a question you might have comes up. It also allows Eckhart to be able to address possible objections head-on.

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle.

Like the sound of The Power of Now? Why not buy a copy of the book and read it yourself?

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The Power of Now was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

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