Audiobook Sample read-Power of Now.
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The power of now a guide to spiritual enlightenment by Eckhart Tol introduction. The origin of this book, I have little use for the past and rarely think about it. However, I would briefly like to tell you how I came to be a spiritual teacher and how this book came into existence until my 13th year. I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression. It feels now as if I'm talking about some past lifetime or someone else's life. One night, not long after my 29th birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread. I had woken up with such a feeling many times before. But this time, it was more intense than it had ever been. The silence of the night. The vague outlines of the furniture in the dark room, the distant noise of a passing train, everything felt so alien, so hostile and so utterly meaningless that it created in me a deep loathing of the world, the most loathsome thing of all, however, was my own existence. What was the point in continuing to live this burden of misery? Why carry on with this continuous struggle. I could now feel that a deep longing for annihilation, for nonexistence was now becoming much stronger than the instinctive desire to continue to live. I cannot live with myself any longer. This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought that was, am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me, the eye and the self that I cannot live with. Maybe I thought only one of them is real. I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped. I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts. Then I felt drawn into what seemed like a vortex of energy. It was a slow movement at first and then accelerated. I was gripped by an intense fear and my body started to shake. I heard the words resist nothing as if spoken inside my chest. I could feel myself being sucked into a void. It felt the void was inside myself rather than outside. Suddenly, there was no more fear I had let myself fall into that void. I have no recollection of what happened after that. I was awakened by the chirping of a bird outside the window. I had never heard such a sound before. My eyes were still closed and I saw the image of a precious diamond. Yes. If a diamond could make a sound, this is what it would be like. I opened my eyes, the first light of dawn was filtering through the curtains. Without any thought I felt. I knew that there is infinitely more to life than we realize. The soft luminosity filtering through the curtains was love itself. Tears came into my eyes. I got up and walked around the room. I recognized the room and yet I knew that I had never truly seen it before. Everything was fresh and pristine as if it had just come into existence. I picked up things, a pencil, an empty bottle marveling at the beauty and aliveness of it all.