We were both serious classical musicians, specializing in maligned instruments-he played the bassoon I played the French horn. We both had parents who were professional artists. Over lunch in Boston in April, we discovered that we had weirdly parallel lives: With less than two years separating us in age, we grew up a few miles apart in lower-middle-class Seattle neighborhoods. That last version of Seattle is the soil from which the actor Rainn Wilson sprang-as did I. In the ’60s and ’70s, it was a remote, rainy city dominated by Boeing, albeit with a vital arts community and a lot of spiritual seekers.
In the 1990s, it was a cool destination for countercultural 20-somethings who liked grunge rock. Today, it is known for Amazon, Microsoft, fancy coffee, and enormous fortunes. Seattle has gone through several big transformations in the past few decades. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, “The eternal, ever present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question and answer format to guide us.Ī word of mouth phenomenon since its first publication, The Power of Now is one of those rare books with the power to create an experience in readers, one that can radically change their lives for the better.Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. From the very first page of Eckhart Tolle’s extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind.
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