In The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, author Eckhart Tolle explains how being fully present in our lives makes it possible for us to achieve things we never imagined.

If you’ve been looking for a book to help you get a handle on how your mind shapes your perceptions and how to change them, this issue’s book selection may be just the one: read The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle (© 1999).

In The Power of Now, author Eckhart Tolle explains how being fully present in our lives makes it possible for us to achieve things we never imagined. Do you want to be free of pain? Free from your past? Do you want more enlightened, intimate relationships? Do you want true happiness – and even peace – in your life?

It’s easy to conceptualize “being in the “now” – perhaps you meditate or walk. However it is much harder to achieve because of our cultural conditioning. We have developed so many strategies for avoiding being present in our lives. This book covers many of these major obstacles and how to overcome the conditioning as well.

It’s not surprising that this book has gained the recognition it has since it has been published. Each section and paragraph is chock full of insights and truthful nuggets. Much of it is written in terms of a question and answer, which makes it possible to read the book through or browse sections that interest you. However you read this book, take time to be present now.