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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
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If you have no prior experience reading about mindfulness, this book is not for you. Tolle comes off a bit condescending, an enlightened know-it-all. I did appreciate the layout of the book: question and answer. However, repeated questions are paired with repeated answers. Instead of explaining more deeply or rewording answers to a confused reader, he just presses his points again more forcefully. For a warmer author I would suggest Jon Kabat-Zinn over Tolle for a read about everyday mindfulness. Kabat-Zinn at least acknowledges the intense struggle of achieving mindfulness, whereas Tolle labels the world and humans as sick and mindless disasters who are almost always incapable of surrendering to the Now. Also, if you are in pain, this book, like so many others, fails to show how one can accept pain in each moment. Still haven't found an answer to that... Also, Tolle comes off a bit sexist! Are women really more likely to become enlightened because we've been oppressed??? Seems a bit difficult to explain that..
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May 21, 2015 – Shelved
May 21, 2015 – Shelved as: to-read
June 6, 2015 – Started Reading
July 7, 2015 – Finished Reading

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