<h2>A central teaching of Tolle’s enlightenment is, you guessed it, to focus on the now.</h2><p>Tolle makes the case that lots of our suffering and pain happen because we allow the past and the future to poison our present. Which makes no sense to Tolle, because past and future don’t even exist.</p><blockquote><em>The past cannot survive in your presence: it can only survive in your absence</em></blockquote>

Forget Past and Future

<h2>Past and future are mental constructs that bear no reality.</h2><p>Things only happen in a continuous stream of present moments. When you feel something about the past you are feeling it now. So it’s not true that you are feeling some pain from the past: you are experiencing it in the success of present, “now moments”.</p><p>What we call the past is nothing but a collection of once-present moments. And the future is made of present moments that have yet to materialize.</p>

Now is All There Is

<h2>Dwelling on past pains and future worries does nothing good for you.</h2><p>For example, you might have a huge project you are running behind schedule. Most people project the future worry of not making it on time or having to face an angry boss on the now, which does nothing good neither for them nor for the completion of their project.</p><p>If you tackle it instead in the now, you can focus on doing all the actions that need be to taken now, free of future worries.</p><blockquote><em>The secret of life is dying before you die. And finding there’s no death.</em></blockquote>

How “Now” Empowers You

To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of Eckhart Tolle's extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, “The eternal, ever present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question and answer format to guide us. A word of mouth phenomenon since its first publication, The Power of Now is one of those rare books with the power to create an experience in readers, one that can radically change their lives for the better.

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Eckhart Tolle is a teacher, author, and entrepreneur. He is a German-born resident of Canada best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. Tolle does not identify with any specific religion, but he has been influenced by multiple spiritual works.

The Power of Now

Forget Past and Future

A central teaching of Tolle’s enlightenment is, you guessed it, to focus on the now.

Now is All There Is

Past and future are mental constructs that bear no reality.

How “Now” Empowers You

Dwelling on past pains and future worries does nothing good for you.

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