Eckhart Tolle reinvigorated our spiritual community with his bestseller ‘The Power of Now’. It seemed as if he gave the masses a new tool, mindfulness, to enjoy divinity moment by moment. Yet, has anything really changed? Is anyone really any wiser than the times when J. Krishnamurti, Osho or Alan Watts gave pragmatic instructions how to stay connected to the Beyond. Isn’t there the same projection going on, ‘I want to have what he is having’ or ‘I want to see the world the way he is seeing it.’
The problem statement lies in looking up to spiritual authority and enlightenment. No, the gospel everyone can enjoy is ‘the power of now.’ The here and now is what contains the magic, independent of whether we feel good about it or not. Accept the entire spectrum of occurrences independent of whether you experience them as good or bad. Accept yourself as the authority that is being set up for the next ‘out-of-self’ magnificence of the here and now, and please stop projecting into others who supposedly have it all.
You have it all, or rather, what lies beyond the self has it all. The power of now takes the ‘you’ away.
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