I feel a little bad rating this book at 3 stars - someone more spiritual or accustomed to this kind of material would likely rate it higher. The material is intentionally repetitive, iterating on the idea of presence, and peaks about halfway through during live Q&A. After that Tolle seemed to run out of things to say.

I requested this from the library and it came before Power of Now, but having read A New Earth, I got the gist. This format (Tolle talking to a live audience at a retreat and answering questions) actually worked well for the material and helped me understand him better than when first reading a New Earth.

Regardless of your background or previous exposure to Tolle's work, I think it's worth a try.

Easy to say but hard to practice. The idea every thought is based in ego identity and the Buddhist idea of detaching to drop such draining thoughts.I am still rereading and hoping to practice what so far is a very stressful concept. Written to be absorbed it is repetitive and questionable for practicality for the average American.

I think that it is the telling the real facts which we sometimes ignores all that but I love reading this book

Abandoned on page 40.

Audio recording of a live retreat Tolle did on the practice of the book The Power of Now. A quick synopsis/live interaction of the book. The book is obviously better and more thorough. This is likely only available as an audiobook.

Yet another book on mindfulness blended with new age spirituality.

Very wordy and repetitive. Perhaps I wasn't in the mood...show me the condensed version!

If you like his teachings, you will like this book. Start with the power of now, if you are not familiar with his philosophy.

Peace is saying yes,
The Space Consciousness is finding a gap in the stream of thinking.
This was fun and though provoking.

Heard this one on cd. Good, if you jive with the vibe. I personally love this.

The best part was that you want to exit life, there are 3 signs underneath that will lead to the same place.. i think it was space consciousness, body awareness and keeping still with no thoughts not even thoughts of noticing..

I learned that I need to be zen.. one foot in the real world and one foot in the world where it's a universal spiritual world.

There are no your god or mine gods only the vast universe

just zone out and stop thinking is a next level skill

nothing matters in the world anymore, no attachment to the physical realm.

ooommm....

I listened to the audio book and I could not finish it because the individual doing the voice was creepy in his presentation and I felt like Charles Mason was telling how to meditate.