This post is about a writter called Eckhart Tolle, spent several years wandering unemployed (he was a bum) and in a deep suicidal depression when he was 29 years old, one night he woke up in the middle of the night with darkness in his room and he experience a epiphany. Recounting the experience Tolle says: I couldn’t live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I’ that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! I didn’t know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or “beingness,” just observing and watching.
This book is about spiritual enlightenment and perhaps you are questioning yourself what is it? living in the now, is live the moment like when you're go to a jog or ride a bike, swim, go to the gym anything that you have to be fully concentrate that your thoughts passes through your mind and you only watch them and keep running.
In other words the now is when you don't have time to say oh my god i have to pay this and that, or when you overthink a situation that is in the future or keep recalling for something you did in the past.
Because you aren't your mind, your mind works for you, you have to decide what to do, not the mind tells you what you have to do.
Spirituality is principal you have to comprehend that some great power create us, called it whatever you want to: Buda, Christ, Ganesh, Krishna, etc. If you are aware of that you are more awake than the others.
If you have to do one thing do it, is your first chance or last to do it you don't know when you going to have another chance to do that. If you have the chance to do or not do, always choose do.
This men has no religion but he believes in some greater power that gave us this world and this body to do the best for ourselfs
Great job Victor! This sounds like a great book, I think many of us have felt a little like him at some point in our life. I will try to read it!
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