A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose PDF Print E-mail
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A New Earth {Penguin 2008 reprint) by Eckhart Tolle (pronounced Toll-ey) builds on the ideas shared in the bestselling spiritual guide, The Power of Now (New World Library 1999). His work focuses on showing how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also is the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world.
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Tolle was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Since 1995 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada.

At the core of his teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening consists in transcending our ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violent conflict endemic on our planet.

The good news is that there is an alternative to the potentially dire situation we find ourselves currently facing in the world. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one.

In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are—which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are—and learn to live and breathe freely.

An excerpt from A New Earth

The Secret of Happiness

Being at peace and being who you are, that is, being yourself, are one. The ego says: Maybe at some point in the future, I can be at peace – if this, that, or the other happens, or I obtain this or become that. Or it says: I can never be at peace because of something that happened in the past. Listen to people’s stories and they could all be entitled “Why I Cannot Be at Peace Now.” The ego doesn’t know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now. Or maybe it does know, and it is afraid that you might find this out. Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.

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 realise that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

Website: EckhartTolle.com

Eckhart Tolle, on Not Reacting to Content, from Soundstrue.com

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Eckhart Tolle on Being Yourself

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Eckhart and Oprah did a live webcast for 10 weeks discussing A New Earth. You can listen to the archived shows at Oprah.com

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