A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) | Eckhart Tolle | wonder why you think your are nuts?

books:

Cinderella (Walt D... Next to Normal (Or... Quintet The two piano A New Earth: Awake...

	A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) Eckhart Tolle Penguin, 2008 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 1486 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now

With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

The Power of Now was a question-and-answer handbook. A New Earth has been written as a traditional narrative, offering anecdotes and philosophies in a way that is accessible to all. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life?and for building a better world.

About the Author

ECKHART TOLLE is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. In his writing and seminars, he conveys a simple yet profound message with the timeless and uncomplicated clarity of the ancient spiritual masters: There is a way out of suffering and into peace. Eckhart travels extensively, taking his teachings throughout the world.

for more information click here

Just get it!

Just get it! Read one page, read two pages at a time, just do it! It is life changing. I have bought copies for friends and family too. What Eckhart Tolle's words can do for your life, your view of things forever after you read it is what is life changing. He makes perfect sense in this world. A New Earth is ours, one person at a time. Bless you Eckhart Tolle and what you have given me and so many!

wonder why you think your are nuts?

A must read for the insight on how to re-direct or turn off that voice in the head that is so unsettling. Read Byron Katie afterwords and get familiar with "The Work" to cut through some of the BS your mind generates.

for more information click here

Wonderful

I have read many books about the ego and how one needs to let go of it for inner peace and to awaken to one's inner consciousness. A New Earth, for me, really expressed this concept in an easy to understand and graspable way. Even though many of the concepts discussed were not "new", they were expressed in such a way that i finally understand them on a deeper level where I can incorporate them into my daily life. This was a great read for me at this point in my life and it may be for many others as well.

A New Earth

This was an interesting read for me. There is some I agree with and some I disagree with or just don't "get." Perhaps I'm not entirely ready to be awakened.

I did think/notice that portions of the book seemed to be a form of repackaged Buddhism for the Western world/culture. I actually think this is a good idea and I'm not criticizing this because there are some wonderful fundamentals that may otherwise not necessarily be part of Western culture. This seemed to be Eastern thinking for the Western culture. I like this idea because there are parts of such thinking that are just not usual in our culture. I also thought it was interesting that he pulled ideas from Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and probably others I just didn't catch.

Although I enjoyed the book, I was often distracted by Tolle's "vanity" (not sure if that's the right word). I sometimes felt he was preachy and kept wondering how big his house is if indeed objects mean nothing. I also felt that telling the reader from the get-go that if he/she didn't agree with or understand the ideas put forth, then the reader just wasn't ready to be awakened. I felt like that was a cop out. Tolle should have just made his points and let the reder decide if he/she is ready or even wants to be awakened. I couldn't tell if it was resistance in my own head to opening my mind to beliefs different than my own or if he truly sounded that way.

The main message I got from the book is to exist in the present and to be aware (of ego and carrying negative thoughts). The point is that constant worry about the future and what-if this, what-if that is no way to live. The same can be said with reliving/regretting the past. I liked how Tolle expressed that - not to carry it around.

One quote (of many) from the book: "If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction." Well yes. And I agreed when I heard Einstein's quote, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Common knowledge, no? I suppose it's good to point this out for those that don't know or to reiterate for those that do.

This book reminded me (in certain parts) of another book I read - Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman. Might be worth a read if you liked Tolle's book.

All in all I think A New Earth has some very interesting insights and can be useful in life, however I don't think it's life-altering for me. I think this book can be immensely helpful for some people. It might be life-altering for some, just not for me, but that's not the book's fault so I gave it 3 stars. I think the book does what it's supposed to do. Although I don't regret reading this book and I don't feel it was a waste of time, I don't think I would read another one from this auther.

for more information click here