A New Earth (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Eckhart Tolle: German-born public speaker, a teacher on spirituality and the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with his wife, Kim Eng.
• A New Earth: Talking about how we can change ourselves to improve the world.
• Jesus Christ: the spiritual leader of Christianity, worshipped as the Savior of mankind. His concepts are often quoted and interpreted in this book
• Buddha: Eastern figure of spiritual guidance and wisdom. Concepts of Buddhaism are tied into the vision of creating a new earth
• Jean-Paul Sartre: Add a description of this character.
• Shakespeare
• Albert Einstein
• Jane Smith
• Descartes
• Ekido
• Ethel

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• “semiautonomous energy-form that lives within most human beings”

• “"How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them"”

  Tolle

• “"Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer."”

  Tolle

• “What you resist, persists.”

• “Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.”

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• Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

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• How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

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• The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all—from the most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

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1. Eckhart Tolle (Author)

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• Library of Congress: BL624 .T635 2005
• Dewey: 204.422

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Concepts are too difficult for children and most teens to grasp

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• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Spirituality › Personal Transformation
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › New Age › Self-Help
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Personal Transformation
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Spiritual
• Books › Nonfiction › Education

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