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The power of now: a guide to spiritual enlightenment
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Tolle, Eckhart Narrator, Author
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9781577314806
9781577313755
9781577313113
9781577311522
9781577313755
9781577313113
9781577311522
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Table of Contents
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Truth That Is Within You 3 --
Chapter 1 You Are Not Your Mind 9 --
Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment 9 --
Freeing Yourself from Your Mind 14 --
Enlightenment: Rising above Thought 18 --
Emotion: The Body's Reaction to Your Mind 20 --
Chapter 2 Consciousness: The Way Out of Pain 27 --
Create No More Pain in the Present 27 --
Past Pain: Dissolving the Pain-Body 29 --
Ego Identification with the Pain-Body 34 --
Origin of Fear 35 --
Ego's Search for Wholeness 37 --
Chapter 3 Moving Deeply into the Now 39 --
Don't Seek Your Self in the Mind 39 --
End the Delusion of Time 40 --
Nothing Exists Outside the Now 41 --
Key to the Spiritual Dimension 42 --
Accessing the Power of the Now 44 --
Letting Go of Psychological Time 46 --
Insanity of Psychological Time 48 --
Negativity and Suffering Have Their Roots in Time 49 --
Finding the Life Underneath Your Life Situation 51 --
All Problems Are Illusions of the Mind 53 --
A Quantum Leap in the Evolution of Consciousness 55 --
Joy of Being 56 --
Chapter 4 Mind Strategies for Avoiding the Now 59 --
Loss of Now: The Core Delusion 59 --
Ordinary Unconsciousness and Deep Unconsciousness 60 --
What Are They Seeking? 62 --
Dissolving Ordinary Unconsciousness 63 --
Freedom from Unhappiness 64 --
Wherever You Are, Be There Totally 68 --
Inner Purpose of Your Life's Journey 73 --
Past Cannot Survive in Your Presence 74 --
Chapter 5 State of Presence 77 --
It's Not What You Think It Is 77 --
Esoteric Meaning of "Waiting" 78 --
Beauty Arises in the Stillness of Your Presence 79 --
Realizing Pure Consciousness 81 --
Christ: The Reality of Your Divine Presence 86 --
Chapter 6 Inner Body 89 --
Being Is Your Deepest Self 89 --
Look beyond the Words 90 --
Finding Your Invisible and Indestructible Reality 91 --
Connecting with the Inner Body 93 --
Transformation through the Body 94 --
Sermon on the Body 96 --
Have Deep Roots Within 97 --
Before You Enter the Body, Forgive 99 --
Your Link with the Unmanifested 100 --
Slowing Down the Aging Process 102 --
Strengthening the Immune System 102 --
Let the Breath Take You into the Body 104 --
Creative Use of Mind 105 --
Art of Listening 105 --
Chapter 7 Portals into the Unmanifested 107 --
Going Deeply into the Body 107 --
Source of Chi 108 --
Dreamless Sleep 110 --
Other Portals 110 --
Silence 112 --
Space 113 --
True Nature of Space and Time 116 --
Conscious Death 118 --
Chapter 8 Enlightened Relationships 121 --
Enter the Now from Wherever You Are 121 --
Love/Hate Relationships 123 --
Addiction and the Search for Wholeness 125 --
From Addictive to Enlightened Relationships 128 --
Relationships as Spiritual Practice 130 --
Why Women Are Closer to Enlightenment 136 --
Dissolving the Collective Female Pain-Body 138 --
Give Up the Relationship with Yourself 143 --
Chapter 9 Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness There Is Peace 147 --
Higher Good beyond Good and Bad 147 --
End of Your Life Drama 150 --
Impermanence and the Cycles of Life 151 --
Using and Relinquishing Negativity 156 --
Nature of Compassion 161 --
Toward a Different Order of Reality 164 --
Chapter 10 Meaning of Surrender 171 --
Acceptance of the Now 171 --
From Mind Energy to Spiritual Energy 175 --
Surrender in Personal Relationships 177 --
Transforming Illness into Enlightenment 180 --
When Disaster Strikes 182 --
Transforming Suffering into Peace 183 --
Way of the Cross 186 --
Power to Choose 188.
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