Goodreads Summary
📌Stand-Alone:
📌Release Date: December 13, 2013
📌Format: hardcover
📌Setting: N/A
📌Page Count: 127 (not including about author, blank pages, etc)
📌Genre(s): Spirituality (Non Religious), Non Fiction, Self Help
📌Date(s) Read: [finished] 1/13/20
📌Rating: Book: 4.5/5 Audio: 5/5 Narrator(s): Eckhart Tolle
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020:
☼ A Book with a great first line
("When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself")
My Rambles:
(FYI: When I put "Finished" under "Dates Read", usually that means I forgot the day I started the book and/or it took me any where from a couple of weeks to a few months or longer to finish said book. In this case, I don't remember exactly when I started this book)
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Audio book: With this book and The Power of Now (summary linked), I listened to the audio book and I had to listen to it at 1-1.5 speed because anything faster than that, make it hard for me to understand. Also, his voice is so soothing that you could end up tuning out exactly what he is saying and just listen to his voice. Speeding it up more, made it just that much easier to only listen to his voice and not what he is saying. Listening to it at slower speeds made me focus more on what he was saying, even though his voice was still soothing no matter the speed but I find myself getting frustrated sometimes when I have to listen to books at slower speeds and it makes me focus more..Well, the few times I've done it anyway..
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Book: Well, there isn't much to say about this book except that it was a lot easier to handle because he spoke about certain things in smaller doses. Not much more than a paragraph or two at a time. Many, one or two lines. There are 10 chapters about 10 different things. So, if you have never read one of Tolle's books or you just need some quick daily reminders on a specific topic he has in this short book, this would be great to pick up. I found myself writing many things in my journal.
Not sure if I will buy this book or not but it would definitely be one that I'd choose to put on my shelf once I make up my mind either way.
This is the second book I've read by Tolle and I do plan on looking into some of his other books down the road.
As a person who tends to over think and allowing my thoughts to "run my life", these books help me to realize, I don't have to allow my thoughts to do so and how to stay in the now. Allow it to be still. Not stupid or dimwitted, just silence the "over thinking" and staying in the Present/Now.To allow what ever I am doing in that moment, be the focus. Not my past, not the future, NOW.
But, this one, although he spoke on thinking, he also spoke on many other topics as well.
Done rambling now, because in this moment, I believe I am sleep rambling. lol
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