This book of quotations from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth (2005) is really designed for those already familiar with the author’s work. In his introduction, he recommends reading no more than one chapter at a time, at most, stopping to re-read whatever resonates and allowing the words to sink in. The book could also be used bibliomantically, selecting and reading a page at random, rather than to learn something new ‘but to go deeper’ and ‘awaken out of the stream of incessant and compulsive thinking.’
It’s not possible to summarise the wisdom here, but it is a book that you can come back to time and time again, and find that different passages now prompt some response, or new insights are found in familiar words. The insights might be deeply challenging and yet so simple at the same time. I’ll just quote one example:
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 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 acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.
Oneness With All Life
