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Eckhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness.Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolise "break time". This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles--a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. --Gail Hudson

What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." The "I" is the nexus in our brain where the levels feed back into each other and flip causality upside down, with symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. For each human being, this "I" seems to be the realest thing in the world. But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction? Does an "I" exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the all-powerful laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Godel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is the book Hofstadter's many readers have long been waiting for.

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Raymond van het Groenewoud (Schaarbeek, 14 februari 1950) is een Belgisch zanger, gitarist en pianist. Zelf noemt hij zich eveneens tekstdichter, filosoof en clown. Zijn teksten zijn soms opgewekt, dan weer droevig of filosofisch.Van het Groenewoud staat vooral bekend om de hits Meisjes (1977), Vlaanderen boven (1978), Je veux de l'amour (1980), Chachacha (1981), Brussels by Night (1979), Liefde voor muziek (1991) en Twee Meisjes (1995).De zanger werd geboren als zoon van Amsterdamse ouders. Zijn vader, Josef van het Groenewoud, vluchtte in 1947 naar Brussel om aan de dienstplicht en met name deelname aan de politionele acties in Nederlands-Indië, het huidige Indonesië, te ontkomen. In België verwierf hij als gitarist en orkestleider bekendheid onder de artiestennaam Nico Gomez. Aanvankelijk woonde het gezin in de Hoogstraat, later verhuisde het naar Schaarbeek.

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