Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose"
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Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle is arguably among the world's most prominent spiritual writers. His books have been named, not once but twice, on Oprah's Book of the Month Club. Even better, Oprah and Tolle are offering a free, online workshop to discuss A New Earth Awakening to Your Life's Purpose.
This lens discusses each chapter as Oprah and Tolle cover them in the webinar. Please contribute and let's discuss this phenomenon.
Join Me In The Journey to NOW
What are you doing NOW to live in the Now?
Chapter One: The Evolution of Human Consciousness
Introduction to our Spiritual Awakening
The Good Earth, he says, is a transformational device arisen out of this new consciousness. He expects that the reader will experience a shift in consiousness as a result of reading the book. The book will either change your state of consciousness or it will be meaningless.
As each individual raises his or her state of consciousness, this in turn increases the momentum of the collective unconsciousness. In other words, you change the world when you change yourself.
Tolle points to the history of the human race as a history of madness. In other words, that which we consider 'normal' is at its very root, dysfunctional. What we consider 'normal' arises from the ego, and the ego is rampant with greed, pride, the lust for power, anger, fear, jealousy, insecurity, etc.
This new consciousness means rising above thought, realizing that within us that is so much greater than thought. Our thoughts, the "voice in our head" is not who we are... we are the being that is behind the thoughts -- our spiritual self.
Favorite Eckhart Tolle's Quotes from Chaper One
from A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose: The Flowering of Hunan Consciousness
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On the Environmental Crisis
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Eckhart Tolle on the Web
- Oprah and Eckhart Toll's Online Workshop
- Register here for the free online workshop beginning on March 3, 2008.
- Eckhart Tolle on Wikipedia
- The huge online Wiki offers excellent information about Eckhart Tolle
- Eckhart Tolle
- Eckhart Tolle's own web site contains his schedule, his books and more.
Who is your favorite spiritual writer?
What do you do to get "in the Now"?
One destination, many paths
1. Being outside experiencing nature
2. Meditation
3. EFT tapping
4. Prayer
5. Using a psychological "gimmick" to bring oneself into the Now -- such as visualizing an enjoyable scene
6. journaling
7. Petting an animal
8. Guided imagery
9. And many more
Eckhart Tolle Videos
Eckhart Tolle on Being Yourself
Come face to face with Eckhart Tolle, for a transformational meeting with this respected teacher and influential author. In clear language, Eckhart explains the process of entering the "miraculous" state of presence that is always available to us. We are lost, he says, in the maze of our own compulsive thoughts. Excerpted from the DVD The Flowering of Human Consciousness. Learn more: http://shop.soundstrue.com/shop.soundstrue.com/SelectProd.do?prodId=16&priority=WEBYT
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The Eckhart Tolle Controversy
Some say Eckhart offers false prophesy
Is Eckhart Tolle's writing a threat to organized religion?
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Steve says:
Who cares; organized religion is like organized crime. People don't need religion. They need Jesus. This man makes statements that are very much like statements made in the first century. He's just saying that your mind can change everything. Good luck with that.
Posted August 04, 2009
supergirl says:
Traditional organized religion is a joke, simply another way for people to control other people, and hopefully more and more people will see that. I hope Eckhart can help :)
Posted May 13, 2009
lorab says:
Thankfully Yes, he is a threat to fundamentalists, rightly so. Eckhart and other spiritual writers such as Deepak, Dyer, Hays and so forth are, in my mind, finally speaking the truth in what believing in God and your spirit was suppose to be. When we get over literalistic religions, stop killing, separating, hating in the name of these religions and start loving each other as the ethereal souls we are...then and only then will peace prevail.
Posted January 26, 2009
Nimsy says:
Eckhart Tolle's work is inspiring and encourages you to be your own master and so weakens the hold and control of the more fundamentalist religions.
However for those who are willing to keep an open mind, it can deepen their experience of religion..
Posted October 20, 2008
FulfilledDestiny says:
The fact that he is questioning religion at all is to be commended and is fabulous on to itself!
Blessed Be,
Fulfilled Destiny
Posted October 11, 2008
No
TonyDelia says:
I say amen to a threat to "orginized" religion
Peace and Passion,
Tony
Posted May 05, 2009
MARGARET says:
I wish it were!
Posted March 26, 2009
Kerry M. says:
Organized religion is a threat to truth. The truth is found in the bible, and for anyone to place their faith elsewhere, e.g., in themselves (and the power of now); in a secular writer; in a hierarchical religion run like a business by men on earth, is to miss out on God's truth and the love he has for mankind by sending his Son to redeem us.
Posted August 18, 2008
chuck webster says:
The writings of Eckhart Tolle or any spiritualist, philosopher, atrist or scientistis present no more threat to organized religion than the writings of Carl Marx do to democracy or Thomas Jefferson do to socialism....the threat is how we each react to ideas and information not the ideas and information itself..
Posted June 12, 2008
Roy Petit says:
They said this about the Da Vinci Code... irregardless, the book is just one mans ideas on how we as people can better get along with each other, it's people who are affraid of that kind of change who make such statements. Besides, if you are living in the moment and are allowing life to just happen the question and its answer are meaningless.
I have read only a few books like this one over the past 12-14 years; All of these books have come into my posession because they just seemed brighter than the others, it's as if I'm drawn to them, or visa versa... The first book that changed my way of thinking was the 'Celestine Prophecy', the next was 'A Warriors Journey Home, Healing Men - Healing the Planet', and then there was this 'A New Earth.' Like the Celestine Prophecy, I could not put it down, where ever I went, I made sure I had it with me.
I'm a mixed blood man from Canada. I have lived in a world of hatred, anger and fear for too long. I'm sure I am only one of many would like to see our world change for the better - this book, like others before it just adds to the tools that we can learn to use to get out of the disfuntionality of this 'Old Earth'
Posted April 25, 2008
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Chapter Two: Ego: The Current State of Humanity
The Voices in Our Head
In Chapter 2, Eckhart Tolle talks about the ego, and the "voices in our head." The minister at my Church sometimes refers to this as the "Board of Directors" -- the miscellaneous people that chatter in our heads -- offering criticisms, warnings, scoldings, nagging, frightened 'what if's" and so forth.If we banished the "board of directors" -- what voice would we hear?
Tolle says our egoic mind consists of content and structure, and is completely conditioned by the past. He says that our ego likes to identify with thoughts, words, wants, possessions and societal messages, but our our real self -- our spirit self -- is separate and distinct from all of that. The new consciousness involves moving beyond the ego and into our spirit.
A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose, Eckard Tolle asks, "When forms that you had identified with, that gave you your sense of self, collapse or are taken away, it can lead to a collapse of the ego, since ego is identification with form. When there is nothing left to identify with anymore, who are you?"
Do you know?
My Favorite Quotes from Chapter Two of A New Earth
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Chapter Three
How strongly do you identify with the voice in your head? Do you know the voice is not truly "you" -- it is your ego at work. The ego loves to complain -- but that which we focus on becomes stronger. So by focusing on the complaints, worries, concerns, etc., we make these conditions stronger. As Tolle said in his Webinar with Oprah, "complaining" is not done for the purpose of correcting a situation. That is something different. Complaining is done simply as the ego's way of reinforcing its "rightness" and someone else's "wrongness."Eckhart Tolle makes the excellent point that war is a mindset. He points out that despite our "war on drugs", "war on crime", "war against infectious diseases," etc., we have more drug abuse, more crime and more medial treatments than ever.
What you resiss, persists.
Favorite Eckhart Tolle Quotes from Chapter Three
Best Things Eckhart Tolle said in The Core of Ego
On war and other undesirable conditions
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Chapter 4: Role-Playing: The Many Faces of Ego
Chapter four is a long one. It talks about the role playing we do, and the many roles that our ego identifies with. Eckart Tolle cautions us not to confuse function with a role. For example, if I am a mother, I am obligated and responsible to carry out certain mothering functions. But I should avoid allowing my ego to make my mother role my identify.I love the part at the end when Eckhart talks about ego and work. He makes the point that some people who are exceptionally good at what they do may sometimes lose the ego and function from the spirit while they are working. For them, work is a spiritual practice.
Tolle also pointed out to a caller during the Webinar that it can be a spiritual practice for any of us to do our work, our functions, while striving to act from Consciousness, rather than ego.
I like that approach.
Spiritual practices are freely available to us regardless of our functions in life. We can pursue spiritual growth whether tending the kids or chairing a board meeting
Favorite Eckhart Tolle Quotes from Chapter Four
Role Playing: The Many Faces of the Ego
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- Dr_Paul_DeBell Dr_Paul_DeBell Nov 21, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
- What a beautiful lens! This is a great presentation and summarization of Tolle's book. I have a lens on Decoding The Spiritual Messages of Everyday Life and would love for you to drop by when you get a chance.
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- Soul-expert Soul-expert Jan 11, 2009 @ 9:36 pm
- This is a very nice lens. You give a great overview of "A New Earth" here. I'd love it if you'd stop by my lens and say hello when you get the chance.
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- healingtherift healingtherift Oct 27, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
- This is a very well done lens. You present a lot of very helpful information here. Please feel free to visit my lens on healing the rift between science and spirituality when you have the chance. Be sure to leave a comment and say hello when you visit.
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- jacquelinestone jacquelinestone Oct 21, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
- I love Ekhart's work, and you've done a great job of presenting it.
Please consider submitting this lens to Who's Who in Personal and Spiritual Growth.
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- Serenity_Prayer_Gifts Serenity_Prayer_Gifts Sep 8, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
- Wonderful Lens! Thanks! :-)
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