It is with interest and intrigue that we read Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now, and agree without hesitation with all the principles he expounds. The success of the reading would have been to drop the book at whatever point we feel convinced about living the moment, and to start living the moment. But, we continue reading the book to its very end. Because we want to be perfect in the practice of Living the Moment. The book has been a necessary, but not a sufficient condition to start practicing. Practice makes perfect, isn't it? But we want perfection before practice. So, we seek additional insights. One obscure book on the bookstores' shelves is now a shelf in itself. Tolle has become a cult. It has become fashionable to talk Tolle, discuss Tolle, spend our living moments (sic) analyzing Tolle.
Tolle recognizes our apprehensions. He obliges us with another piece of art - a more user-friendly one, A New Earth. We love it! We strive to absorb it using contemporary technologies. This was a breakthrough in the drug delivery mechanism. The intent was to get the medication to the source of suffering quicker and more effectively.
I hope Tolle has been successful. Else, he will die a broken heart - leaving behind a huge legacy of literature that mankind spends a big chunk of their lives reading and analyzing, rather than living.
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