May
12
The Power of Now
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My friend Nancy Colasurdo turned me on to the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle a few months ago. I bought it at some airport, and tried to read it without much success. At the time it was too heavy and spiritual - neither of which fit in to my mindset as a tough business traveler, forging her way around 30 cities in less than 3 months. Sorry, but spiritual enlightenment would have to wait. But now that I’m back home and starting to relax a bit, I picked up the book again…and this time it really spoke to me. I finished the book while chillin’ in Atlanta this past weekend, and now I’ve begun Eckhart’s other work called The Power of Now. I’ll be writing more posts about these books in the near future, so I just wanted to warn you. Weed is gettin’ Zen, so watch out.
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Yeeha! Get your Zen on, my friend
I am so greatful to Eckhart Tolle and Oprah for turning me onto Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her beautiful book “”My Stroke of Insight”". Her story is amazing and her gift to all of us is a book purchase away I’m happy to say.
Dr Taylor was a Harvard brain scientist when she had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can! Thank you Dr. Taylor, and thank you Eckhart and Oprah.