Wheel of Fortune

A New Earth

I tried some time ago to read Eckhard Tolle's book The Power of Now and found it boring and incomprehensible. When I saw his newest book, A New Earth on the library shelf I was going to ignore it, but felt compelled to take it home, anyway. I don't know if his writing has improved dramatically or that I am in a different place to hear his words, but the book has blown me away! I have found it to be one of the clearest and most lucid descriptions of conciousness, Being, Presence, God and Spirit that I have read! I have always been a seeker, questioning what our purpose of life is, and what that means in shaping a life. I have come to some conclusions and deeply held beliefs....but this book has crystallized and condensed much of what I have known and sensed.

Of course, it is all about living these beliefs and putting this knowledge into practice day by day and moment by moment.....but I feel a sense of clarity, and joy, and power about how to go about doing this.

Years ago I read A Course in Miracles and was moved by much of the teaching there, but found a lot of it confusing and obscure. Tolle condenses much of the eternal/archtypal wisdom that A Course in Miracles contained into something more intelligible and manageable. He teaches a way out of suffering into peace.

He takes much of his teachings from Jesus and from Zen.....and makes Zen concepts of ego, mind, non-being, intelligible.

These are the true things I have sensed and partially grasped throughout my life, but I feel a fuller understanding after reading his book.

Over the past months I have been depressed and having much difficulty dealing with the family crisis that my son and grandchildren are in. Though nothing has outwardly changed, I feel hope again, and a lessening of fear and despair. For now, that is enough.