Jenny Yates's Reviews > The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Yes, this is a good book. A good Buddhist book, about achieving enlightenment. About already being enlightened, and recognizing this fact. It’s full of words which take you there, and I found myself writing some of them down in my notebook. However, by the end of the Tolle’s book, I was a bit bored. I was muttering, “Okay, I think I get it already.” The words can sometimes be dry, considering the subject matter is letting go of time entirely and entering a state of cosmic bliss.

My favorite part was the beginning, the story of how Tolle woke up one day, after days of being totally fed up with life, and just leaped into his transformation. And then he tries to explain exactly how to do it, and sometimes this works, but sometimes it’s less effective than being hit on the head with a ping-pong ball.