Acute crises and dysfunction always precede or coincide with any evolutionary advancement or gain in consciousness. I enjoyed reading his ideas here, and I will keep reading his works to see what more wisdom he has to impart.

Most people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that NO THING ever had anything to do with who they are. In the past, this would have been inconceivable, especially in the West, the most mind­-dominated of all cultures, where the Christian church had a virtual franchise on spirituality. Understanding that no matter what is going on in your life--this too, will pass-- and being aware and totally in the present. Tolle's penmanship allows difficult philosophical, psychological principles to come together simplified.

What really matters is not what function you fulfill in this world, but whether you identify with your function to such an extent that it takes you over and becomes the role you play. Most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form. Without the impairment of egoic dysfunction, our intelligence comes into full alignment with the outgoing cycle of universal intelligence and its impulse to create. Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and become like crystals or precious stones, so to speak, transparent to the light of consciousness? Suddenly she looked impatient, as if she was about to get up, and said angrily, “No, I don't want to accept this.

You will believe all the distorted,negative thoughts and you will keep thinking them over and over again. I loved how he snuck in bits from major religions and explained their universal relevance outside the context of their religious context. When that shift happens, which is the shift from thinking to awareness, an intelligence far greater than the ego’s cleverness begins to operate in your life. It is recommended to everyone, especially those who want to get peace of mind and live a happy life in the present.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. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible to you only through the portal of the present moment.

Some people feel more alive when they travel and visit unfamiliar places or foreign countries because at those times sense perception -experiencing- takes up more of their consciousness thank thinking. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earthis a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life—and for building a better world. Partly as a result of the spiritual teachings that have arisen outside the established religions, but also due to an influx of the ancient Eastern wisdom teachings, a growing number of followers of traditional religions are able to let go of identification with form, dogma, and rigid belief systems and discover the original depth that is hidden within their own spiritual tradition at the same time as they discover the depth within themselves. If the egoic earth drama has any purpose at all, it is an indirect one: It creates more and more suffering on the planet, and suffering, although largely ego-­created, is in the end also ego­-destructive.His writing is very easy to understand --clear and simple and he shares insights that you can use in your life immediately. It's not that I disagree -- it's just that I don't think there's anything particularly new or different. They equate truth with thought, and as they are completely identified with thought (their mind), they claim to be in sole possession of the truth in an unconscious attempt to protect their identity. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form.

Most ancient religions and spiritual traditions share the common insight – that our ‘normal’ state of mind is marred by a fundamental defect.

The thing or event is so subtle, so unobtrusive, that it takes up only a small part of your consciousness – and the rest is inner space, consciousness itself unobstructed by form. Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move: become friendly toward it, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results.