Did you ever stop to realize that your life is never not now? It cannot ever be in the past or the future.

Yet so much of the time, we are oriented toward the past or the future because we are completely identified with our thoughts, which tend to revolve around a mentally-constructed “story of me.”

When we inhabit the “story of me,” we experience only a very limited sense of ourselves, and the story we tell ourselves causes us a great deal of distress.

This afternoon intensive in Chicago, 2003, was broadcast in Real Time Simulcast to the Kripalu Center in Massachusetts, The Religious Science Center, in Fort Lauderdale, Ryerson University, in Toronto and also County Galway, Ireland.

Filmed at Inner Directions Gathering, LaJolla CA, March 2003

- The movement of needing to add 'more' to yourself.

- The fate of being a spiritual seeker - the 'seeking' movement.

- Awakening out of the stream of thinking.

- The renunciation of thought is the renunciation of past-future.

- Renounce the need for the next moment.

- The antagonistic attitude towards life - the illusion of 'me' gets strengthened through fighting what is.

- Why should I allow something to be . . . ?

To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and it's false created self, the ego, behind. From the beginning of the first chapter we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes a lighter air, the air of the spiritual. Although the journey is challenging, we have simple language and a question and answer format to guide us. The words themselves are the signposts.

This long-awaited second book by renowned spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle provides a "going deeper" into the teaching already so eloquently and clearly expressed in his first book THE POWER OF NOW. Although the teaching takes on new depth, added dimensions and specific focuses, it is even easier to grasp since Eckhart writes in short, clear entries ranging from one line to one page.