Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain.Įmotion literally means “disturbance.” The word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning “to disturb.” Make it a habit to ask yourself: What’s going on inside me at this moment? Not the ultimate truth of who you are, but the relative truth of your state of mind at that time. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body.
Research has shown that strong emotions even cause changes in the biochemistry of the body.
Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind. The present moment holds the key to liberation. This kind of compulsive thinking is actually an addiction. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. This is the essence of meditation.Ībout 80 to 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. You’ll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. Disease happens when things get out of balance. In contrast, when our consciousness is free from the ego, we are free from suffering and step into the present moment fully alive and aware. Tolle describes how our ego-based state of consciousness (which is usually the case when we are thinking) often leads us to suffer unnecessarily from either anxiety, stress, or a general sense of lack. In The Power of Now, spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle shows readers how to go beyond an intellectual understanding of the power of the Now and experience it directly within themselves. The only time you should care about is the present moment. You’ll hate or love this book, but you should learn something to become more aware and fight your ego that creates resistance leading to pain and diseases.īiggest lesson: Surrender to what is. Personally, it's one of the most powerful and transformative books I ever read. This book offers simple concepts that are hard to accept and put into practice as we are profoundly unconscious and resist everything that is true. The Power of Now shook all the concepts I had about time, presence, mindfulness, ego and the meaning of life.
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