A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (edit title)

• Rated 5 stars

“Every time I read it I gain so much more. The depth of Tolle's understanding is endless. I found much peace reading this book.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Not a book for casual read. Each page is filled with concepts that would make one stop and mull over. I find the reading an eye opener in terms of how I deal with Life. We are not only content but we are of essence. And the 14th century Persian poet and Sufi master Hafiz expressed beautifully our purpose "I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music"”

• Rated 3 stars

“body pain & the EGO, interesting look”

• Rated 0 stars

“this is for study not entertainment.”

• Rated 0 stars

“An excellent book on self realization. It makes a lot of sense and helps you realize just how people behave and how you can change it. It was a difficult read for me & took me a long time, but it was interesting.”

• Rated 0 stars

“loved it”

• Rated 1 stars

“What do you get when you mix Buddhism, Christianity, New Age and Psychology? Besides an incoherent display of words such as "Consciousness is already conscious" , or conjectures like "Ego is Schizophrenia", you also get a new age religion with this book- A New Earth- as its Bible, and Eckhart Tolle, as its humble prophet. A Nirvana like state he calls Presence- via- a- vis God- is to un attach ourselves from thinking that "we" even exist for real consciousness is achieved only when we get rid of our Ego -our past memories and sense of future- which he calls a distortion of reality- and connect with the eternal consciousness of the Universe. In that way we can fully enjoy the only moment that really exist: the present moment. Throw away the history books! Scrub off your next years vacation plans! What's the use? Past and future don't exist! "Presence" is what is "real". Everything else is a collective delusion that we learn thru form. I imagine that a feral baby- babies that are purposely thrown into a closet away from "form" which is "the environment"- is in a continuous Nirvana like state and connected to a Higher Power. Severely affected Autistics - who barely have knowledge of past history much less the future- and you could argue always live in the present moment- must be left to enjoy it. Why bother "disconnecting" them from "Presence" thru form. Or, consider this one, what will a psychologist think of a man who calls schizophrenia having a sense of "me"? He would think that this man is in real need of a shrink. After all, for Eakheart, being "absent minded" is the real bliss. Moreover, this philosophy makes an enemy of any human emotion, for emotion to exist it has to be triggered by form. Therefore anger, stress, frustration, impatience, fear ,anxieties are nothing but a figment of our ego ridden imaginations in our time bound state of consciousness. Avoidant behavior is preferable to facing reality and time is a delusion itself so he advices not to pursue any evidence of it- denial- so that you don't disrupt your connection to the present moment. The psycho-religious babble goes on and on. The denial of our senses is king here. It's always been a long lived religious requirement to detach ourselves from the world itself. In that sense A New Earth is a manifesto of denial of the human condition. In summary, this book is yet another attempt to modernize religion which has always been in a timeless battle against a very human trait called thought . But, how can we develop thought without being exposed to form? You won't find that answer here. Thought is by all religious standards -and since Eve dared to take from the tree of Knowledge- , the enemy of God (Presence) and of human Happiness. What I find really ironic is that it is thru thought process-albeit irrational - that Mr. Eckhart concocted yet another infantile delusion: the religion of consciousness. ”

• Rated 2 stars

“Interesting perspectives. Heard from a Christian radio station that these sorts of movements are taking more and more people away from the church and turning people more spiritual than Christian. So I don't like it as much anymore. ”

• Rated 2 stars

“Not bad, a bit complicated for me”

• Rated 5 stars

“Excellent!”