Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. The Power of Now teaches the importance of living in the present moment and avoiding thoughts of the past or future. It discusses enlightenment, emotions, consciousness, fear, and strategies that disrupt living in the present. The document provides summaries of Tolle's teachings on topics like the past, the inner body, relationships, happiness, choice, and surrender.

1. THE POWER OF NOW
By:
Anushya
Keerthana
IInd.B.A.Eng.Ist shift
Skill Based Elective
2018-2021
Government Arts College
To:
Dr.G.Subramanian.

2. ECKHART TOLLE
He is a spiritual teacher. He
is a German-born resident of
Canada. He is best known
for the author of The Power
of Now and A New Earth.
He is the most spiritual
author in the United States.

3. The book is intended to be a guide for
day-to-day living and stresses the
importance of living in the present
moment and avoiding thoughts of the
past or future.
The book teaches Enlightenment and
Spirituality through meditation.

4. Enlightenment:
∆ Enlightenment is man’s
emergence of his self-incurred in maturity.
∆ Enlightenment is education or
awareness that brings change.
Motto:
Have courage to use own understanding.

5. Emotions:
~ Emotions are state of
feeling that resulted in physical
and psychological changes that
influence our behaviour.
~ Emotions are complex
~ Emotions are
reflections of the mind in the
body.

6. Consciousness and
Unconsciousness:
Consciousness:
✓ consciousness is the state or
quality of sentience or awareness of
internal or external existence.
✓ It has been defined variously
in the ability to experience or to feel.

8. Unconsciousness:
✓ Person is unable
to respond to people and
activities.
✓ They include
sudden
confusion,disorientating or
stupor.

9. Fear:
- someone actually
threatened you.
- stress,worry, anxiety
are psychological fear.
- eliminate past, future
& you will be free of fear.

10. A few mind strategies that disrupt the
Now:
× I'm worried about the future.
× one day, I'll make it.
× I need to wait for something to
happen.
× I must work now to improve my
life.

11. The past cannot survive in your
presence:
¶ TOLLE believes it is a mistake to
pursue the unconscious past.
¶ The unconscious past is a bottomless
pit.
¶ Attention to Now will reveal as much
of the past as is helpful and relevant.
¶ It is not necessary to make sense of
the past to live fully in the now.

12. The Inner Body:
% To live life in
present,connection between inner and
outer body is very important.
% Transformation is through
the body,not away from it.
% Jesus said, “Before you
enter the temple, FoRGIVE.
% TOLLE comparing our body
with temple.
%. Connection with inner body
via the other body enhances creativity.

13. Enlightened
Relationships:
• Mind creates
Love/Hate cycle with all relationships
(except true Love).
• This relationships
will become addictive.
• This cycles
creates a drama in living.
• Every addiction
arises from an unconscious refusal to
face and move through your own pain.

14. Happiness and
Unhappiness:
∆ Accepting
things as they are in a first step
in experiencing peace.
∆ Most ‘bad’
things are created by egos.
∆ The ego
defines things are good and bad.

15. The Power of Choose:
= Requires
consciousness.
= Our impulse
towards suffering in lack of
consciousness.
= One can do it
only in the present.
= Until you reach
that point you are unconscious and
you don't understand the reality.

16. Importance of
Surrender:
- One should
surrender to the reality of a
situation.
-
Convert ourselves from mind
, energy to spiritual energy.
- ‘ God
choose the weak things of
the world to shame the
strong’ so if you are weak it

17. 'when was the
last time you
surrender in
your
relationship?’

18. By:
Anushya
Keerthana