I’ve listened and read to every book Tolle has published. Tolle offers up what he calls sign posts to truth and liberty. In his own life he experienced deep depression and anxiety. As he approached suicidal thoughts something snapped in his Mind that there was a distinction between who he was and the self he was not happy with. That came to him when he thought “I am going to kill my self”. The distinction happed for him in the “I” and the “my self”. Realizing the power of now means simply to put your attention in to the current moment as opposed to scattering yourself over a multitude of things which dilutes your power to get thing handled. In this follow-up program Tolle cracks jokes about how the Mind goes in to despair over the smallest and insignificant things.

Listening to Tolle on audio especially has a calming affect even if you have no idea what he is talking about. He quotes all religions and teachers large and small. He doesn’t promote religion but rather an acceptance of what is. To accept the present moment doesn’t mean you give up on yourself. Rather no change will ever come from a place of resistance so he teachers surrender. When you surrender to it in your Mind you then you release the resistance and then the solution can appear to you. If you think about it how many times has a solution come to you when you took a break, shower or even smoked a cigarette. It’s the discord in your” beingness” that causes things to break down in the most subtle ways. If you think I’ll be happy when this happens the discord of that keeps you from it. If you can surrender to it then what you want will work it’s way to you and you will be a willing partner in that.