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Author’s Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction The Origin of This Book The Truth That Is Within You CHAPTER ONE : You Are Not Your Mind The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment Freeing Yourself from Your Mind Enlightenment: Rising above Thought Emotion: The Body’s Reaction to Your Mind CHAPTER TWO : Consciousness: The Way Out of Pain Create No More Pain in the Present Past Pain: Dissolving the Pain-Body Ego Identification with the Pain-Body The Origin of Fear The Ego’s Search for Wholeness CHAPTER THREE : Moving Deeply into the Now Don’t Seek Your Self in the Mind End the Delusion of Time Nothing Exists Outside the Now The Key to the Spiritual Dimension Accessing the Power of the Now Letting Go of Psychological Time The Insanity of Psychological Time Negativity and Suffering Have Their Roots in Time Finding the Life Underneath Your Life Situation All Problems Are Illusions of the Mind A Quantum Leap in the Evolution of Consciousness The Joy of Being CHAPTER FOUR : Mind Strategies for Avoiding the Now Loss of Now: The Core Delusion Ordinary Unconsciousness and Deep Unconsciousness What Are They Seeking? Dissolving Ordinary Unconsciousness Freedom from Unhappiness Wherever You Are, Be There Totally The Inner Purpose of Your Life’s Journey The Past Cannot Survive in Your Presence CHAPTER FIVE : The State of Presence It’s Not What You Think It Is The Esoteric Meaning of “Waiting” Beauty Arises in the Stillness of Your Presence Realizing Pure Consciousness Christ: The Reality of Your Divine Presence CHAPTER SIX : The Inner Body Being Is Your Deepest Self Look beyond the Words Finding Your Invisible and Indestructible Reality Connecting with the Inner Body Transformation through the Body Sermon on the Body Have Deep Roots Within Before You Enter the Body, Forgive Your Link with the Unmanifested Slowing Down the Aging Process Strengthening the Immune System Let the Breath Take You into the Body Creative Use of Mind The Art of Listening CHAPTER SEVEN : Portals into the Unmanifested Going Deeply into the Body The Source of Chi Dreamless Sleep Other Portals Silence Space The True Nature of Space and Time Conscious Death CHAPTER EIGHT : Enlightened Relationships Enter the Now from Wherever You Are Love/Hate Relationships Addiction and the Search for Wholeness From Addictive to Enlightened Relationships Relationships as Spiritual Practice Why Women Are Closer to Enlightenment Dissolving the Collective Female Pain-Body Give Up the Relationship with Yourself CHAPTER NINE : Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness There Is Peace The Higher Good beyond Good and Bad The End of Your Life Drama Impermanence and the Cycles of Life Using and Relinquishing Negativity The Nature of Compassion Toward a Different Order of Reality CHAPTER TEN : The Meaning of Surrender Acceptance of the Now From Mind Energy to Spiritual Energy Surrender in Personal Relationships Transforming Illness into Enlightenment When Disaster Strikes Transforming Suffering into Peace The Way of the Cross The Power to Choose Notes Acknowledgments About the Author