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| A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose | 
 enlarge | Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 101
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0141017821
EAN: 9780141017822
ASIN: 0141017821
Publication Date: June 29, 2006
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 Good Follow Up To the Power of Now April 16, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
A good follow up to The Power of Now. I wrote the following review about TPON and here it is repeated, but additional comments.
Reading this book was like a condensed version of the many classes I have attended from my spiritual teacher. Eckhart Tolle presents difficult to comprehend subjects in simple to understand language. However, do not expect that this "easy read" will result in instant enlightenment. He sets the basics down, it is up to the reader to absorb and act upon the lessons.
I always leave a weekend workshop at my spiritual teacher's ashram on a natural high. This book gave me that same feeling. It is a wonderful book to help guide you on your spiritual journey.
A New Earth guides the reader further along the path with excellent commentary. The book is grounding. Good reminder to keep my ego out of my way!
Author of the award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet.
Avoids what I really dislike.... April 12, 2008
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
It is a common mistake amongst seekers to think that books on the non-dual are good books merely by reason of their content, or becuase of the imagined exhaulted state of their authors. This is not so. People in the non-dual state can write bad books just as easily as can those of us stuck in duality. Here are three common faults I have found with such books:-
1. Saying a thousand true things, and saying nothing useful. When books like these are written they seek to do something very difficult - they seek to describe another state of conciousness, and this allows of the possibility of saying many true things about the other state, none of which are of any use, and which very often don't make any real sense, until tht state is reached i.e. until the point comes when they are supefluous. This is far worse than useless because it will create in the seeker a huge effort of the mind to try understand. With considerable intelligence this can in fact be done, but if it is achieved it will have been destructive, (a) becuase it will plunge the seeker into thought - exactly where he does not want to be and (b) because he will find himself in a the place that many ernest people find themselves, i.e. that of having good mental understanding of what is being said, but of being looped within the topic and therefore not being able to obtain the transformation. This is a bad place to be.
2. Scaring the bejeebers out of the reader. There are many points at which this is done in the non-dual literature but perhaps the most common is that the transformation requires that the ego, your self, be undone. Some authors like to refer to this undoing as the "death" of the ego. This is is a terrifying metaphor and almost guranteed to put the ego into a survival mode - exactly the *wrong* mode to be able to hear the gentle truths that must be taken in if the transformation is to occur. If you find yourself being scared by a nondual book *sling it* and get another one.
3. The author failing to remember the nature of the dual state. Many authors in the non-dual state have actually forgotten what the dual state is like. They have done so to such an extent that their ability to truly relate to the reader is gone. Instead they pronounce from a position which is ultimately innaccessible.
OK but none of these errors occur in New Earth. Instead Eckhart gently rolls out the material, never once becoming scary or incomprehensible, and never once does he pronounce from a place of inaccessibility. By contrast, the book sweeps into you and over you like a gentle wave over warm sand. There is nothing to run from - just bathe in it.
So the book is superb, it's as simple as that. Get it if you want to see through the illusion.
Regards
Adrian
PS I reckon there are about 200 spelling errors in the book (yes I am serious) and that will quite possibly irritate you, but maybe that's a good thing - you'll see why.
Heaven is right here. March 30, 2008
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Since I really enjoyed the "Power of Now" I was looking forward to reading this follow up book "A New Earth." And can honestly say I was not disappointed. Eckhardt Tolle writes in a story book style where the reader is able to come along for a ride into tales of enlightenment and inspiration in how to live the best life possible and with purpose.
In the chapter titled "Role-Playing:The Many Faces of The Ego", Tolle writes of how in the very moment you become aware of something, in this case he writes of "a negative state within yourself", you have the potential to disengage from those thoughts or emotions. Through awareness a shift takes place where those negative thoughts lose their power over you, fading to the background from the foreground of your sense of yourself.
I have found this way of disconnecting my thoughts as being reality to be one of the most freeing and liberating ways of living my own life as a true expression of myself. It also frees me from the limitations that reoccurring "thoughts" or "emotions" cast into the present moment.
If you have found insights and inspiration in any of Tolle's books I highly recommend reading any of Ariel and Shya Kane's books. Choosing one of the following "Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment", "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: A Book About Instantaneous Transformation" or "How To Create a Magical Relationship." I am sure you will find further inspiration and insights into living the easiest, happiest and most satisfying life possible. Like your own heaven on a new earth.
Accelerating Enlightenment! March 27, 2008
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
"A New Earth" is a wonderful extension of Eckhart Tolle's first book, "The Power of Now". It is so exciting that Eckhart and Oprah are teaming up and sharing the content of this amazing book on their worldwide web event! I love how Eckhart writes "how the voice in the head has a life of its own." There is a great freedom understanding that I am not my thoughts. I woke up this morning worrying about my busy schedule and if I would accomplish what needed to get done. Then I relaxed when I remembered Eckhart's words. I simply saw this thought process without judging it, realizing that this voice is not me. And I had a very productive day!
If you find Eckhart's book enlightening, you'll love reading Ariel & Shya Kane's books, "Being Here, Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment", "Working On Yourself Doesn't Work", and "How to Create a Magical Relationship". As Eckhart beautifully describes living in the moment, the Kanes give the "how to" in their books. The Kanes also have an awesome radio show called "Being Here" via their website. I love that authors like Eckhart Tolle and Ariel and Shya Kane are providing internet access to their discoveries, accelerating and strengthening the life style of enlightenment for all of us!
wonderful March 25, 2008
47 out of 50 found this review helpful
I love the Power of Now but I think A New Earth is even more profound and lucid. I find that this book - like all Eckhart's books, but this one has it even stronger - has an almost uncanny power. Somehow you can feel the wisdom it contains seeping into you as you read and taking you a little closer to realisation. This book gives you a profound understanding of how the ego works, and after reading it you are never quite the same person again. We are amazingly lucky that Eckhart possesses such an acute intellectual mind with an enlightened spiritual state. (The two don't often go together.) I've also been reading books recommended on Eckhart's website, including another stunning book called The Fall by Steve Taylor. It goes together very well with A New Earth. The Fall goes very deeply into the origins of the ego and its insanity and compliments Eckhart's profound analysis.
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