"Until my thirtieth year, I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression… One night not long after my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread."

   So Eckhart Tolle begins the story of how he learned to let go of the past and the future, and began living in the present moment.

   No matter what we think, most of the time we have no problems—if we are living in the present. Because, just now, things are fine. But how do we live in the present?

   A friend of Wayne's, a born engineer and problem-solver, lost his job and had to take a dull, repetitive position. The most difficult task, he said, was figuring out what to do with his brain.

   It is a problem each of us faces each moment.

   Many people love this book. Some loathe it. Either way it can serve as a way to consider what you are doing with your life.

From The Power of Now

--"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be."

--"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."