The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Invite readers to reflect on their broad takeaways and initial reactions to the book.

1. Tolle’s account of hitting an emotional rock bottom before experiencing spiritual clarity is dramatic and deeply personal. How did this shape your expectations or trust in the ideas he presents? Did it affect your ability to relate to or apply his guidance?

2. The Power of Now draws from a range of spiritual traditions, but does so with an untraditional, non-academic tone. How did you feel about the tone compared to other personal growth or spiritual guidance books such as The Mountain is You or The Untethered Soul?

3. Tolle introduces new terms like “Being” and “pain-body” in place of traditional psychological or religious vocabulary. How helpful or unhelpful did you find his terminology when understanding and applying his ideas?

Help readers relate the book’s lessons to their own life experiences.

1. Tolle compares compulsive thinking to addiction, suggesting that it causes more suffering. Have you noticed this “mental noise” in your own life? What situations tend to heighten your overthinking, and how do you usually cope?

2. Tolle’s distinction between “clock time” and “psychological time” encourages readers to release past regrets or future worries.