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Loading... A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005)by Eckhart Tolle
   No current Talk conversations about this book. A book exploding with wisdom. One I will read again... with a fuller review. (  ) nrt43 | Dec 29, 2020 |  Yeah, I guess I’m not ready for enlightenment or awakening. I quit. (  ) pmichaud | Dec 21, 2020 | Fantastic. This will go on the "Books to read several more times" shelf. Came to it from Dan Harris's 10% Happier with the scepticism Harris conveyed about it. I think he was too harsh. The talk about frequencies is strange but when you're discussing hard to nail down topics, you use whatever language you can. The science behind taking it literally is less important than the general message. I learned a great deal from it. (  ) Pumpkinson | Jul 21, 2020 | I did a read-then-skim on this one. It's got some valuable insights in it, but I don't enjoy the presentation. It's something of a jumble of philosophies distilled for a wider audience, which is fine---like I said, valuable insights---but I'm not sure there's much for me than I've already gotten from years of mindfulness and NVC. At this point, I'm looking for something meatier. I would prefer to go to the works of the philosophers themselves and build from there. Aside from the Oprah feel to this book, I dislike how Tolle occasionally oversimplifies to the point of inaccuracy (e.g., when he wrote that crime had increased dramatically in the past decades, which the data don't support). And then there's the incongruity of having a book about letting go of ego that has a giant picture of the author on the back cover and his name in type larger than the title on the front cover. I do my best to judge the message rather than the vessel in which it's presented, but the extra-large font size is difficult to ignore. (  ) ImperfectCJ | Jun 28, 2020 | A beautiful book with some very intriguing ideas. One that I am sure I will read again. ( ) slmr4242 | Oct 16, 2019 | no reviews | add a review
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Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: he implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity. However, there is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In illuminating the nature of this shift, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are--which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. 
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