Eckhart Tolle

The author shares the secret of his own self-realization and the philosophy for living in the present he has developed.

A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

The Power of Now

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I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. 

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some super human accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. By misuse, I mean that people who have never even glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is that they are denying.

Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hin drance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points. 

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. 

Can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the "off" button?

Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it. 

When you listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. Do not judge or condemn what you hear for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door. 

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