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Best-selling author Eckhart Tolle has captivated nearly a million readers with his lessons on discovering the profound state of being he calls "presence". On Entering the Now, an all-new title in the "Power of Now" teaching series, this remarkable speaker shares practices and insights to take listeners into "the timeless dimension", a luminous place found only in this very moment that transcends the struggles and anxiety of our busy lives.

Once you've experienced the power of the present moment, what's next? Eckhart Tolle, who ignited a spiritual awakening in the West with his best-selling The Power of Now, invites you to join him on a path that takes us even further into the profound experience of pure presence.

You are already fabulous, worthy, and spiritual. In Spiritually Sassy, the modern and playful teacher Sah D’Simone speaks to the diverse world we live in today, sharing eight steps to help us celebrate our most radically authentic and spiritual selves. The ultimate goal? In Sah’s words, “To find freedom, honey.”

What’s keeping you from feeling better? Current research shows that a remarkable amount of pain and illness is actually caused by our attempts to get rid of it. With Healing Through Mindfulness, pioneering mind-body psychologist Dr. Ronald Siegel provides an important complement to other treatments, sharing evidence-based mindfulness techniques to resolve a wide range of disorders maintained by psychological stress and other blocks to healing. Go beyond symptom management and begin to really heal.

When Eckhart Tolle agreed to be interviewed on September 11, 2001, he could not foresee the historic nature of this date or the suffering that would follow. As the day's events unfolded, in real time, he responded with a calm and clear voice, helping to make sense out of the fear and chaos that will forever define this date. Even the Sun Will Die documents this historic meeting with Eckhart Tolle and the comforting wisdom he revealed that day.

Peace is possible. Eckhart Tolle discovered this firsthand during a transformational experience at the age of 29 - when the "continuous mental noise" that made his life "an unhappy story" spontaneously ceased. The Simple Truth is an illuminating audio session with the author of The Power of Now that traces the growth of Eckhart's teaching work - and offers the possibility for each of us to participate in the evolution of human consciousness.

When you realize that it’s unnecessary to think all the time, something miraculous happens: who you are beyond the self-image in your head begins to emerge. Join Eckhart Tolle in The Secret of Self-Realization for an intensive two-session program pointing us toward the firsthand experience of our essential nature beyond the mind. After years of anxiety and depression, how was it that Eckhart came to suddenly realize a vastness of peace and inner freedom? Through the cessation of the thinking that was creating all of the drama in the first place, Eckhart discovered a sense of identity beyond “the little me.” The Secret of Self-Realization invites you to transcend the frustration and dissatisfaction of a thought-based life to experience the liberation that unfolds when the dimension of “being” takes precedence.

We've been conditioned to repress our unwanted emotions, teaches Kim Eng. In "The Emotional Body," Kim leads us in a guided practice that helps us let go of our ideas about emotions and invites us to feel the natural flow of emotional energy, even as we contemplate the awareness in which all emotions arise and dissipate.

History's first meditators were the shamans, whose practices for contemplation and connecting with the divine are echoed in virtually every spiritual tradition today. Sandra Ingerman invites you to return to the source of human spirituality - and experience for yourself the enduring power of these ancient practices for healing, guidance, and awakening. Here, she leads a guided meditation - called a "journey" in the shamanic tradition - for finding your spirit teachers and power animals.

Elizabeth Earnshaw is here to help. The renowned Gottman therapist, founder of A Better Life Therapy, and influential Instagram therapist behind @lizlistens has helped to transform countless relationships. With I Want This to Work, she presents for today’s generation the most effective and proven steps for relationship success.

For over 800 years, Tibetan Buddhists have used lojong (literally, "mind training") to transform difficulties into insights, and conflict into genuine communication. Lojong practice uses a special meditation technique and 59 written maxims - a treasury of practical wisdom that inspires everyday awareness. Awakening Compassion is the first audio retreat on the practice of lojong taught by Pema Chödrön, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and best-selling author.

When you discover that who you really are has nothing to do with what your thoughts tell you, something incredible happens: a vast space opens up. From that spaciousness comes a deeper intelligence that Eckhart Tolle calls “alert stillness”—or our essential nature beyond form. From Stillness to Presence explores our role in the evolution of human consciousness and how we can each begin to invite the arising of awareness in our lives.

We are each crowned twice in this lifetime, teaches the Jungian analyist Marion Woodward. Much is written about the promise of the first crowning, at birth. But what of the second, which comes only after a lifetime of experience? This "crown of age" she says, a symbol for the culmination of our inner and outer development as human beings.

The most joyful emanation produced by a colony of bees is known as the "song of increase" - declaring that the hive is flourishing and the bees are happy in its abundance. Song of Increase takes us inside the world of the honeybee to glean the wisdom of these fascinating creatures with whom humanity has shared a sacred bond for millennia. Within these minutes is a bee-centric approach to living with honeybees, rather than advice for simply maximizing the products they provide.

Pain, loss, shame, sadness - suffering is an unavoidable part of being human. The practice of tonglen offers us a way to transform our relationship with suffering - our own and that which is all around us. In The Courage to Love the World, beloved teacher Pema Chödrön shares insightful and heartfelt stories about tonglen, along with direct instruction and guided practice.

Discover Christianity's own unique tradition for experiencing God directly through meditation with The Beginner's Guide to Contemplative Prayer. Author James Finley, who as a young monk lived and prayed with Thomas Merton for six years at the Abbey of Gethsemani, shares the fruit of this authentic approach to prayer and its role at the center of Christian life.

A vocation arises, not as a response to external forces, but authentically from within your own body. Dr. Rick Jarow has helped thousands of frustrated job-seekers open to their intuition, transform their values into action, and answer their true calling - instead of settling for a paycheck. The job you were born to do will unfold in time - take the time first to listen to this advice.

Have you ever felt energetically "out of tune"? Had trouble managing your emotions? Or just wanted to feel more grounded and present? With The Beginner's Guide to the Chakras you will learn how to balance and energize your body's "chakras": the seven spinning centers of energy that regulate your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Join acclaimed instructor and author Anodea Judith as she introduces you to your chakra system.

On the day her first book came out—a new translation of Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross—Mirabai Starr’s daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car accident. “My spiritual life began the day my daughter died,” writes Mirabai. Even with decades of spiritual practice and a deep immersion in the greatest mystical texts, she found herself utterly unprepared for “my most powerful catalyst for transformation, my fiercest and most compassionate teacher.”

When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she'd speak at the commencement ceremony. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day. "What do we do when life doesn't go the way we hoped?" begins Pema. "We say 'I'm a failure.'" But what if failing wasn't just "okay"... but the most direct way to becoming a more complete, loving, and fulfilled human being?