How do you evaluate the book 'The Power of Now'?

How do you evaluate the book 'The Power of Now'?

If you don't have pain within yourself, you won't read "The Power of Now", and if the pain is not deep enough, it's hard to truly understand it.

And this kind of pain is brought about by active thinking. Self-doubt and struggle, in the interval of putting down thinking and only being busy occasionally, one finds oneself like a walking corpse.

If you forget that you are still alive, what's the difference between you and the walking dead?

This sentence in the book woke me up: "Most people pursue physical pleasure or various forms of psychological satisfaction because they believe these will make them happy or free them from fear or feeling of lack."

They go around looking for residual joy or satisfaction from achievements, security, or love, but they don't know that they not only already have all of these things but also have something more precious than these.

Men pursue career success, believing that recognition and praise from others can bring affirmation and comfort, and having wealth can bring peace of mind. Women pursue love, fantasizing that their partner can fill the missing part of themselves, and marriage can change their lives.

No doubt, they will all be disappointed in the end.

If we pour too many expectations into others, we will definitely be disappointed.

Parents shackle their children, partners shackle each other.

Desires will become stronger, but everything in the outside world is impermanent. Business failures or broken marriages will bring people to the bottom of the valley.

It's very sad that we humans are born to feel lonely and incomplete. The pain of abandonment has already been produced since the moment we left the womb.

We need companions, we need comfort.

But external people and things cannot fill this void.

Only we can save ourselves.

"Thinking" is an advanced ability that distinguishes humans from other animals, and it is thinking that brings pain to ourselves.

Life can be improved, life cannot.

Previous goals and meanings are all overturned.

I'm glad I read "The Power of Now."

We thought that racing against time and filling every second with desperate efforts was winning life.

We invest the precious time that makes up life into efforts for the future, and our minds weave beautiful dreams about the future.

In fact, time is not precious at all because it's just an illusion. What you think is precious is not time but the point outside of time, which is the present moment.

In reality, the present moment is the only thing truly precious.

Eternity does not mean endless time, but no time.

The present moment is eternity.

By living in the present moment, you can gain the power of redemption.

Stop thinking, life is beautiful.