The Power of Now Is the Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Paperback Book, By: Eckhart Tolle

I rarely look back on the past and rarely think about it, yet I want to tell you briefly how I became a spiritual teacher and how this book found a way to exist. Until I was thirty years old, I lived a state of almost constant anxiety, punctuated by periods of suicidal depression, and I now feel as if I am talking about a life left over from the past or about someone else's life. One night not far from my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up early with a feeling of absolute dread similar to many previous times, but this time it was a stronger feeling than before. What is the purpose of continuing to live while carrying on this burden of misery? Why continue this constant struggle? I could have felt that that deep yearning for abolition and nothingness was now much stronger than the instinctive desire to continue living. I can no longer live with myself and.