A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
ECKHART TOLLE’S ……. AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE……….AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING BOOK “THE POWER OF NOW”……
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A Pleasant Surprise… Unusually good,
I admit… I had my reservations about Tolle and his material. When I first saw the man, he talked way too slowly for my liking and I could have sworn he was half-mole. And after reading the book description and some of the reviews; I had an uneasy feeling that this was going to be a lot of spiritual hokum that tells me that my discomfort was due to my furniture in the wrong place or that I don’t cuddle enough fluffy animals, and that the path to happiness is paved with daily 5-hour meditations where I admire my feet, so that one day I can shoot laser beams from my hands.
Anyhoo… I’m glad my close friend persisted in his recommendations.
I won’t lie: This book can be abstract in places and is very spiritually-centred, so will not be for everyone… however, the spiritual element is incredibly practical. As much as my head imploded in some of the later chapters, his explanation of the ego and pain body are utterly brilliant. (In short: The ego is the “individualistic” element that seeks superiority/being unique, be it by showing off, playing the “hard-done-by-victim” or actions that purposefully make us ‘different’. The pain body is a network of emotions that help to ‘fuel’ the ego. How lovely). What I really admire is how much Tolle talks you through the process of weakening their influences. With most self-help books, the tutor will generally explain their solution and just leave it at that… here, Tolle almost has a built-in FAQ, and explains a lot of the mistakes, potential problems and general things to expect when starting out. If I’m honest, I’ve found this a lot more practical than the majority of other self-help tactics out there… things like affirmations (the art of saying nice things about yourself) seem like short-term fixes that don’t hold water when the going gets tough. Here, I’m seeing a lot more strength. (For anyone else who’s read the book, I’ve found the phrase “The ego feels/thinks…” to be very useful. Of course I don’t say this out loud…)
In terms of whether this book is for “you”… hmm…
Personally, if you’re in a situation where you seem to be “losing sense of who you are”, and fluctuate between highs and lows almost like a minor form of bi-polar depression (one minute you’re a hero, next thing you know you’re nothing), and can feel that you can handle a decent level of abstract psychological/spiritual ideas… then you’re probably ready and should give this a spin!
Peace
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|wonderful,
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 would also recommend Steve Taylor’s wonderful and inspiring book Out of the Darkness, which contains an interview with Eckhart about his spiritual awakening and how it emerged from his psychological turmoil. That’s another amazing book. Out of the Darkness: From Turmoil to Transformation
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|Waking up – and losing your mind,
“A New Earth: awakening to your life’s purpose” is both deeply profound and wonderfully liberating. Tolle is particularly well known for “The Power of Now” and “Stillness Speaks”, yet this new book takes his spiritual teaching to an altogether different level. In a simple and profound way he is able to illuminate several of the deepest truths revealed by teachers over the past 2,500 years. His characterisation of the ego mind, its obsession with form and content, the accumulation of the individual pain-body, and the way in which humans have become so identified with the incessant mental chatter – “lost in thought” – is brilliant. Tolle acknowledges that words can never be adequate to describe the liberation that arises from awakening into consciousness, and our connection to both the space within and the universe of space, yet his ability to convey our ever-present access to Source and the joy of just Being is wonderful. There is nothing to do in this book – no activities, no exercises, no checklists – just a shift in consciousness that lets you come alive. I’m not sure any of this would have made much sense to me ten, or even five years ago. Today it’s absolutely mind-blowing at this stage of my spiritual journey.
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