This is really a book best left to traditional reading and not listening to. This is why the performance of this title gets only a one star. And it distracted a lot from whatever came after it (because it echoes in the background as the story continues). It literally hurt my ears throughout the entire book. While I appreciate the way the audiobook conveys the breaks and/or pauses between chapters or even within the chapters themselves (something I feel all audiobooks should have, by the way), the tone used to indicate these pauses is an extremely high pitched, echoing tone. Practically every sentence and every word.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? And this is not to say it was boring - not at all, just very, very soothing, but not in a good way for the purpose at hand. It really took a while to build up tolerance and be able to follow along while remaining alert. A soothing voice is ok, but not when there's so much to take in. It took me a while to be able to listen and remain alert.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Eckhart Tolle?Īt first I had an issue with the narration because the voice was very hypnotic. If you could sum up The Power of Now in three words, what would they be? To accomplish this is a truly magnificent feat, and the author has my deepest respect for accomplishing this seemingly impossible task. I believe that virtually anyone interested in their own well being will find that this book speaks to them on a level that makes sense for them in their life. If spirituality is not something you are interested in, and in fact it is only very minimally what I am interested in, you could as easily read and identify with this book on the level of a personal psychology guide. And specifically he discusses the teachings of Christianity and dispels, in an unbelievably eloquent way many of the misinterpretations of the original teachings that are prevalent today But the book isn’t about God, it’s simply about one’s self, the author just pulls together western religion, eastern religion, and individual awareness in one framework and shows, with examples from various religions, and mostly from individual experience, how they all point back to the same thing. And he quotes and discusses the concept of “god” in many different religions, but ties them all back to a single concept. While the book is along the spirituality line, it really reframes religions, all religions as part of the same whole. In fact one of the phenomenal things about this book is that an atheist, agnotstic, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist could all sit with this book and identify with it in their own individual way, be it identifying with the individual, their god, or higher spiritual state of being. And at the same time I believe an atheist could listen and identify with it. This is a book about spirituality, and if you choose to hear it this way, God.
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