I have already read numerous inspirational books and there are few books still unread. I started reading "voraciously", as my aunt Linda called me, since after graduating from college, because I had lots of free time then.
One of the best influencial book that I had ever read is The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. This is the first book that I've read since I arrived here at Maui. On page 1 of this book, I feel the emotions of the author, it seems like I experienced it too. The hair on my skin errected as he stated on 4th paragraph of page 1, "Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me..."
On my adustment period, this book really helps me how to react defensively without argument, how to protect myself, and how you react to uncontrolable behaviors of others. It also helps me to heal on emotional and spiritual level. By focusing the moment, I deeply know myself. I was arise to higher level of understanding myself and others.
This book helps me how to react. I learned that, when somebody or that cantakerous individual is trying to annoy or hurt me emotionally, I distance myself from that particular person. I try to be still and that provide my inner strenght and wisdom.
This book is a catalyst who want enlightenment, who are willing to crash down baricades of doubts. I want to restate from page 27, "The more you are able to honor the 'Now,' the more you are free of pain, of suffering- and free of the egoic mind."
