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.
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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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The History of Humanity
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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
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- 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
The Eckhart Tolle Controversy
Some say Eckhart offers false prophesy
Is Eckhart Tolle's writing a threat to organized religion?
Yes
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.
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 :)
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.
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..
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
No
inspirationz says:
I think his writing is simply a re-framing of beliefs that are already somewhat established in organized religion. He often quotes the Bible to illustrate his points, showing that the religious points are not wrong, but simply often misunderstood.
unnamed says:
organized religions are already dead, whatever facial make-up fundamentalists of whatever shade and color is trying to put on the corpse of organized religions, it's just resuscitating a dead body. eckhartism once it gets organized and will soon suffer the same fate. people should experience reality for themselves. Views are just views. reality is always bigger than our views. beliefs are just beliefs. life will always be bigger than our beliefs. the moment people dogmatize and mistake statements and pointers expressing the inexpressible reality, as reality itself, then, organized religions, monsters are born. all there is to be expressed are but mere approximations.
john says:
organized religion is a threat to organized religion. it is kindergarden and it does not want you to graduate to even first grade lest you leave it with a laugh.
ccolelewis says:
Eckhart Tolle's writings point to the truth that is inherent in every religion. If only devout Christians, Muslims, etc. would take the time to study Tolle's works, they would realize this.
TonyDelia says:
I say amen to a threat to "orginized" religion
Peace and Passion,
Tony
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Chapter Two: Ego: The Current State of Humanity
The Voices in Our Head
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
Our Physical Body
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The Kingdom of Heaven
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Our Insatiable Wanting
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Your True Identity
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Eckart Tolle's A New Earth: The Core of Ego
Chapter Three
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
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
Negative Roles
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WriterJanis
Apr 15, 2012 @ 5:09 am | delete
- Very thought provoking lens. It's all about the journey. Blessed!
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nightcats
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- Thank you so much for visiting.
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Mar 26, 2012 @ 1:04 pm | delete
- For me, spirituality is the key. Always growing, always awakening, always becoming all that I was created to be.
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nightcats
Mar 26, 2012 @ 1:06 pm | delete
- Yes, it is a journey without an end.
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Henry
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- Time will come for Eckart to be known worldwide. One inspirational person worthy to be recognized.
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