Stillness Speaks

The essence of Eckhart Tollle's message is easy to grasp: If we connect to the stillness within, we move beyond our active minds and emotions and discover great depths of lasting peace, contentment, and serenity. With his bestselling first book, The power of Now, his message has reached millions of people worldwide. Now, in his much anticipated new book, Tolle gives us the essence of his teaching in short, simple pieces that anyone can easily understand.

Stillness Speaks is organized into ten chapters whose subjects range from 'Beyond the Thinking Mind' to ' Suffering and the End of Suffering.' Each chapter is a mosaic of individual entries, concise and complete in themselves, but profoundly transformative when read as a whole.

Eckhart show more Tolle understands the spiritual neeeds of our time. He draws from the essence of all spirital traditions, expressing these truths in startling fresh new ways. The result is a book that is paradoxically both ancient and contemporary, filled with timely and powerful messages. Stillness Speaks can be no less than an awakening for readers willing to give the words a chance to work their quiet magic.

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. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

'This book of course, uses words which in the act of reading become thoughts in our mind. But those are not ordinary thoughts-repetitive, noisy, self-serving, clamoring for attention....The thoughts within this book don't say, 'Look at me,' but 'Look beyond me.' Because the thoughts came out of stillness, they have power-the power to take you back into the same stillness from which they arose. That stillness is also inner peace, and that stillness and peace is the essence of your Being. It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.'-From the Introduction by Eckhart Tolle

Contents

Introductin
Chapter 1 Silence & stillness
Chapter 2 Beyond the thinking mind
Chapter 3 The egoic self
Chapter 4 The now
Chapter 5 Who you truly are
Chapter 6 Acceptance & surrender
Chapter 7 Nature
Chapter 8 Relationships
Chapter 9 Death & the eternal
Chapter 10 Suffering & the end of suffering
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The author shows how to live a fuller and more authentic life by quieting our thoughts and accessing the spiritual stillness deep within us that is found beyond the limits of our egos.

Short entries and not many pages make this a good read. It expounds on The Power of Now and brings some new things to the table. Would be a good book to own so you could read it yearly.

Profound reflections on finding peace within ourselves. I was especially touched by a powerful chapter on dealing with pain and death. So much wisdom in here.

This is one of the books that began to change to my life. I recommend it to anyone open to it. It was the first book that began a change in my self. Eckhart Tolle provides a self help book without the self help. It has opened my eyes to the functions of the ego and has pulled many of my actions in my conscious mind, which is the first step in changing. It's a powerful book with principles that are so commonly over looked.

New York Times bestselling author Eckhart Tolle -- Learn the transformative power of living in the now Attaining Eckhart Tolle's state of presence: In Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle illuminates the fundamental elements of his teaching, addressing the needs of the modern seeker by drawing from all spiritual traditions. At the core of the book is what the author calls "the state of presence," a living in the 'now' that is both intensely inspirational and practical. The power of now: When the pressures of future and past thinking disappear, fear and frustration also vanish, conquered by the moment. Stillness Speaks takes the form of 200 individual entries, organized into 10 topic clusters that range from "Beyond the Thinking Mind" to show more "Suffering and the End of Suffering." Each entry is concise and complete in itself, but, read together, take on a transformative power. If you have read The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer, Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson, or other Eckhart Tolle books such as The Power of Now, you will want to own and read Stillness Speaks. show less

I like the book, but not nearly as much as the Power of Now