A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club)

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Understanding that no matter what is going on in your life--this too, will pass-- and being aware and totally in the present. You then begin to look not only for substitutes for that natural state of well­being within, but also for something to cover up the continuous unease that you feel when you are not in touch with the aliveness that is always there but usually overlooked. What we consume as the daily “news,” as well as the commentaries on the news, however, is not the whole picture. He then develops these concepts in chapters two, three, and four by offering his descriptions of the ego and its "vices.

When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself – the inner space of consciousness. Agentle journey, one that could take you to a spectacular and very special place of new awareness and deeper understanding.The book is an excellent spiritual book, and it gives its readers some useful and handy pieces of advice. In Stillness Speaks, we receive the essence of Eckhart’s teachings in short, simple pieces that anyone can easily understand.

We could even say that the notion ‘my life’ is the original delusion of separateness, the source of ego. As long as you resist it internally, form, that is to say, the world, is an impenetrable barrier that separates you from who you are beyond form, separates you from the formless one Life that you are.Do whatever you're doing to the best of your ability and with all your being, even if that means just typing this out. Illuminating- it gives something to aspire to (although i generally fall into the traps he advises against. Oprah Winfrey Book Pick 'A New Earth' Shatters Records Archived 2012-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, Associated Press via Fox News, Thursday, February 28, 2008. Practicing the Power of Now is a carefully arranged series of excerpts from The Power of Now that gives us specific practices and clear keys to show us how to discover for ourselves the “grace, ease, and lightness” that comes when we simply quiet our thoughts and see the world before us in the present moment. Normally I don't really go for Oprah selections but I heard so many great things about it plus I am totally into new agey type things, I thought it would be right up my alley.

The moment you say or think "my life" and believe in what you are saying (rather than it just being a linguistic convention), you have entered the realm of delusion. Tolle is an enlightened man and even more impressive is when he said he didn’t want to be, or become a guru. Fear, anxiety, expectation, regret, guilt, anger are the dysfunctions of the time-­bound state of consciousness. In fact, it is precisely in those parts of the world where most people are as yet unable or unwilling to compromise that most of the dysfunction or violence occurs. You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions.

From the very first page of this extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. The author describes some negative aspects of life and explains how they negatively affect the human mind and human body and psychology.