I find your enthusiasm regarding this subject interesting and have started following.you. We certainly do not need to always agree in order to respectfully share dialectic. Nothing but agreement would be boring.

We are both of the type that at least we will know where we stand with our opinions. That will be refreshing.

In this case, I found Tolles book worth while, although it says from his personal experience, as you point out, an age old truism. I am a bit biased in Tolle's favor because I gave his "Power of Now" to a friend who was flipped by it, turned on to introspection regarding serious matters as never before. He gave it credit as the most important book he ever read. He then proceeded to dive into other books of personal, philosophy which lean in a spiritual direction. Bill was a big, robust sportsman and outdoorsman. We became best friends, and Tolle was at the tipping point. He was married to my ex-wife and died at my daughter's home where we gave hospice care for three or four months

He graduated about four weeks ago. I miss the old son-of-a-bitch.