“In your everyday life, you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that gives life to the physical body.” In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state.
If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having. To regain awareness of Being and to abide in that state of “feeling-realization” is enlightenment.” “When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally. Fear arises, and conflict within and without becomes the norm.” You then perceive yourself, consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated fragment. The inability to feel this connectedness gives rise to the illusion of separation, from yourself and from the world around you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. “The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. Some of these forms, such as the ancient religions, have become so overlaid with extraneous matter that their spiritual essence has become almost completely obscured by it.” “I do so not in order to compare, but to draw your attention to the fact that in essence there is and always has been only one spiritual teaching, although it comes in many forms. ”Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.” “Maybe,” I thought, “only one of them is real.” their challenging questions, and their readiness to listen.” But even the most beautiful experiences come and go.” I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. “A time came when, for a while, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. Most Important Keywords, Sentences, Quotes: Tolle provides examples from multiple religions and talks about his personal experience with enlightenment. Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness There Is PeaceĮach chapter talks about the problem (and dominance) of mind and ego on the spirit and how you need to dissolve both to become enlightened.The Power of Now is divided into ten chapters:
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