:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Eckhart Tolle]
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.


:INFO
Reading With My Skepticism Intact
I came to The Power of Now expecting to argue with it. I am not a spiritual person by nature, and books about presence and consciousness make me uneasy. I finished it anyway because a friend I respect told me to stay past chapter three. She was right about chapter three. The ideas that stayed were not the mystical ones. They were about the space between a thought and your reaction to it.


:NOTE
The chapter on the pain-body is the one I return to most.


:JOURNEY
Reading The Power of Now
2 Too abstract
4 Shifted
3 Loosely defined
4 Surprisingly concrete

:TASK
[ ] Practice the observer technique once each morning this week

:POLL
Did The Power of Now change how you relate to your own thoughts?
Yes it genuinely shifted something lasting
Partially, some ideas landed and others did not
Not at all, I did not connect with the approach
I have not read it yet