【正文】 1 The Power of Now CONTENTS About this Book About the Author Acclaim Preface Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction The Origin of This Book The Truth That Is Within You CHAPTER ONE: You Are Not Your Mind The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment Freeing Yourself from Your Mind Enlightenment: Rising above Thought Emotion: The Body39。s Reaction to Your Mind CHAPTER TWO: Consciousness: The Way Out of Pain Create No More Pain in the Present Past Pain: Dissolving the PainBody Ego Identification with the PainBody The Origin of Fear The Ego39。s Search for Wholeness CHAPTER THREE: Moving Deeply into the Now Don39。t Seek Your Self in the Mind End the Delusion of Time Nothing Exists Outside the Now The Key to the Spiritual Dimension Accessing the Power of the Now Letting Go of Psychological Time The Insanity of Psychological Time 2 Negativity and Suffering Have Their Roots in Time Finding the Life Underneath Your Life Situation All Problems Are Illusions of the Mind A Quantum Leap in the Evolution of Consciousness The Joy of Being CHAPTER FOUR: Mind Strategies for Avoiding the Now Loss of Now: The Core Delusion Ordinary Unconsciousness and Deep Unconsciousness What Are They Seeking? Dissolving Ordinary Unconsciousness Freedom from Unhappiness Wherever You Are, Be There Totally The Inner Purpose of Your Life39。s Journey The Past Cannot Survive in Your Presence CHAPTER FIVE: The State of Presence It39。s Not What You Think It Is The Esoteric Meaning of Waiting Beauty Arises in the Stillness of Your Presence Realizing Pure Consciousness Christ: The Reality of Your Divine Presence CHAPTER SIX: The Inner Body Being Is Your Deepest Self Look beyond the Words Finding Your Invisible and Indestructible Reality Connecting with the Inner Body Transformation through the Body Sermon on the Body Have Deep Roots Within Before You Enter the Body, Five Your Link with the Unmanifested Slowing Down the Aging Process Strengthening the Immune System Let the Breath Take You into the Body Creative Use of Mind The Art of Listening CHAPTER SEVEN: Portals into the Unmanifested Going Deeply into the Body The Source of Chi 3 Dreamless Sleep Other Portals Silence Space The True Nature of Space and Time Conscious Death CHAPTER EIGHT: Enlightened Relationships Enter the Now from Wherever You Are Love/Hate Relationships Addiction and the Search for Wholeness From Addictive to Enlightened Relationships Relationships as Spiritual Practice Why Women Are Closer to Enlightenment Dissolving the Collective Female PainBody Give Up the Relationship with Yourself CHAPTER NINE: Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness There Is Peace The Higher Good beyond Good and Bad The End of Your Life Drama Impermanence and the Cycles of Life Using and Relinquishing Negativity The Nature of Compassion Toward a Different Order of Reality CHAPTER TEN: The Meaning of Surrender Acceptance of the Now From Mind Energy to Spiritual Energy Surrender in Personal Relationships Transforming Illness into Enlightenment When Disaster Strikes Transforming Suffering into Peace The Way of the Cross The Power to Choose 4 About this Book To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the beginning of the first chapter we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes a lighter air, the air of the spiritual. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question and answer format to guide us. The words themselves are the signposts. For many of us there are new discoveries to be made along the way: we are not our mind。 we can find our way out of psychological pain。 authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now. We also find out that the body is actually one of the keys to entry into a state of inner peace, as are the silence and space all around us. Indeed, access is everywhere available. These access points, or portals, can all be used to bring us into the Now, the present moment, where problems do not exist. It is here we find our joy and are able to embrace our true selves. It is here we discover that we are already plete and perfect. Many of us will find that our biggest obstacle to this realization is our relationships, especially our intimate relationships. But again, we are in new territory and all is not what it had seemed before. We e to see that our relationships are yet another doorway into spiritual enlightenment if we use them wisely, meaning if we use them to bee more conscious and therefore more loving human beings. The result? Real munion between self and others. If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the Now。 if we are able to feel the reality of such things as the innerbody, surrender, fiveness, and the Unmanifested, we will be opening ourselves to the transforming experience of The Power of Now. 5 About the Author Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany, where he spent the first thirteen years of his life. After graduating from the University of London, he was a research scholar and supervisor at Cambridge University. When he was twentynine, a profound spiritual transformation virtually dissolved his old identity and radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devote