Self Improvement – The Top 101 Experts that Help Us Improve Our Lives

right here and now. Wherever you are is

the place for surrender. Whatever the situation you’re in, you can say “yes”

ge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion

arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise

• There’s no need to seek out some other place or some other condition or
  situation and then do it there. Do it

to what is, and that is then the basis for all further action.

• To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time—the compulsion to
  live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an
  endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor
  and acknowled

of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

The Best Way to Get Started with Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle is known for his New York Times best-seller, The Power of Now: A
uide to Spiritual Enlightenment. His message is simple—living in the now is the
tru t s clearly the place
to g t en
pronou ng his book and was captivated after his
firs p

g by the side of the road for over thirty years.

One day a stranger walked by. “Spare some change?” mumbled the

y holding out his old baseball cap. “I have

hat’s that

Nothing,” replied the beggar. “Just an old box.

long as I can remember.” “Ever looked

. “No,” said the beggar. “What’s the
point? There’s nothing in there.” “Have a look inside,” insisted the
ed to pry open the lid. With
astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled

here

even closer inside: inside yourself.

olle later writes: “Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment. What could be more
sa er resistance to something that already is?
What could be m , which is now and always

G

es path to happiness and enlightenment. The Power of Now i

e started with Tolle. At first, I knew very little about him. I couldn’t ev

nce his name. Then I started readi

t aragraph:

A beggar had been sittin

beggar, mechanicall

nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked, “W

you are sitting on?” “

I have been sitting on it for as

inside?” asked the stranger

stranger. The beggar manag

with gold.

I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you

to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somew

T

futile, more in ne, than to create inn
ore insane than to oppose life itself