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A New Earth (Oprah's Book Club)  | 
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Manufacturer: Dutton
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1174 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Dewey Decimal Number: 204.4
ASIN: B000PC0S5K
Publication Date: April 10, 2007
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"The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now"? In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence. The Power of Now was a question-and-answer handbook. A New Earth has been written as a traditional narrative, offering anecdotes and philosophies in a way that is accessible to all. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life and for building a better world."
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 "new Earth" July 26, 2008
I have found this book a very Large Let Down.
The reviews from oprah were extremely Kind.
Compared to "The Power Of NOW " this book is nothing!!
The strength , the power are not obvious in this book!
For People that ( have listened to or read "The Power OF NOW" this book is a true let down . The substance is not there in the Book "The New Earth".
If you want to understand His writings read the New Earth
first ( Then the powerful ) Power Of now next.
My conclusion :
No need to purchase the "new earth".
Read The Power Of NOW !!!
 This book and Hidden Scars are the best books written! July 26, 2008
Oprah has a huge selection of titles but this one is just about as good as the one she mentioned last month...Hidden Scars. Oprah does very well choosing her material. You'll never go wrong with either book.
Awful July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tolle is totally "egoic" to use his own word. What a bumptious person he is. I think I'm a pretty happy, well-adjusted person, so maybe I just don't have a big enough "pain-body" to get him. I just don't see how an intelligent person with such good judgment as Oprah could be taken in by this!?! I did not finish the book -- there are too many much better books out there to waste my time.
A New Earth July 25, 2008
This is a GREAT book I really enjoyed the message. It really makes you THINK. It's helped change my life. The way I look at things and the way I handle everyday things. I recommend this audio book !!
 Looking for a Few Nuggets? July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I said once in an essay that I've spent my life preparing for destiny and not much wading through the sands of it. I meant I'd spent all my energy searching and gobbling up hoards of incessant words and thoughts of someone I thought had more of an insight than I was capable of coming up with, gurus' books and self help outlines.
Finally, jaded with definitions of ego and managing thought patterns, I find the books no longer hold my attention.
I did read A New Earth, disregarding my 25 page rule (if a book doesn't do anything for you in the first 25 pages, discard it) because I didn't want to miss anything so highly advertised.
I found a few nuggets. Something can be gleaned from almost all books, and this one does trigger an awareness of the present moment and being, even if all of it doesn't resonate.
"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again."
"Being one with life you realize you don't live your life, life lives you. Life is the dancer, we are the dance."
"When you shift from thinking to awareness, an intelligence begins to operate in your life."
"Your personal history which is no more than a story, a bundle of thoughts and emotions, no longer forms the basis of your identity. You are being, an awareness that is prior to and deeper than thought and emotion."
"The greater part of most people's thinking is involuntary, automatic, and repetitive... mental static. Thinking happens to you."
"If you are content with being nobody in particular..., you align yourself with the power of the universe."
"Non-resistance, non-judgment, and non-attachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living."
"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
The story of the math professor's surrender to severe limitation was touching and toward the end, Three Modalities made sense.
But overall, I found the book complex and parts even offensive: the pain-body feeds on negative thoughts and awakens hungry when it is time to replenish, a psychic parasite.
"The Return of the Pain-Body" chapter sounds like it was extracted from some old time religion evangelist's sermon about demons.
Simply stating, you might say that what psychiatrists define as ego is just varying degrees of sensitivity. It seems that those suffering less from thoughts and emotions are those who are less conscious.
Tolle says there are no random events, that causes are virtually infinite. How can anyone be sure of that?
The book is alarmingly narcissist, as it deals only with the first person in lieu of what you can do for other people, which in my opinion, is the simple key to a healthy mind.
By all means, give it a try, but you might take the author's own advice, "Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions."
When you delve into 300 pages of trying to treat the symptoms and not the cause, you start meeting yourself coming, start sounding contradictory.
For every thousand words that mean nothing to us, are a few carefully chosen ones that through the writer's intelligence and skill inspire us to great heights. Recommend: The Thrill of Hope, Concepts to Ponder. Amazon.com
The bottom line is that this is my opinion and response. Everyone has one.
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