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Top Amazon Review
Possibly the most important book I've read.. Tolle explains clearly and simply why unhappiness and negativity can be so much part of our lives, and how to cease identifying with those instincts, which are essentially conditioned reflex reactions.
He offers a new way to react - or rather NOT to have knee-jerk reactions to things that come up in our daily lives - and to notice the negative and possibly destructive behaviour we slip into....and to notice it.
Once we start to notice the way we react to the meaningless things that annoy us every day as well as learning how to accept the larger pain and disasters that also arise, you begin to see exactly how over time we can all move forward together as a more concious species than we are now!
But just read the book, as he explains it a lot better than my three sentences!
Customer Review 1
A New Earth. I have been deeply impressed by this book. Its combination of psychology
and spirituality is by someone who has charted the human psyche and has
practical solutions for problems. It is fresh and sincere.
The author amazes with an intuitive understanding of questions
one has in one's heart, combined with good pragmatic solutions.
He answers one's queries before we ask them.
I am sure that some of these will have left a permanent and improving
mark on my self knowledge and may hopefully have punctured the incorrigible ego.
Customer Review 2
A clear message for our times. I feel Eckhart Tolle has his finger completely on the pulse.
It so clearly argued, and the best part is ; put it into practice and it works.
How could it not.
Customer Review 3
Erm!. I found this too wordy and deep for a simple soul such as myself however I did as advised on the Oprah site and sat with 2 marker pens in different colours to underline that which I understood and that which I didn't. Needless to say one colour got a heck of a bashing!!
I've given it 3 stars though because I did actually get some really good bits out of it which I jotted down on the spare blank pages at the back (in my own words so I would understand later) and for that it was worth reading/buying.
What I am most chuffed about however is reading a review by Paul Chipperfield (lower down) recommending Cheri Huber's book which as he said is much kinder to us mere mortals and he is sooooo right!! Cheri Huber writes in a way I can understand and access reasonably easily - challenging still but achievably so!
Nice one mate!
Customer Review 4
There are better books out there. Reading this pretentious, sensationalistic, overblown book makes me want to dry-heave and at times a little sick actually came out my mouth from its eye-watering, vomit-inducting passages like.....
'By the end of the century, the number of people who died a violent death at the hand of their fellow humans would rise to more than one hundred million... we only need to watch the daily news on television to realise that the madness has not abated, that it is continuing into the twenty-first century. Another aspect of the collective dysfunction of the human mind is unprecedented violence that humans are inflicting on other life-forms and the planet itself.. blah blah'
You get the message. We are doommmmeeeeddd!!! Having to wade through scaremongering sensationalistic crap like that is annoying to say the least. The style of writing is like reading sheet from The Sun.
I did give it two stars because there is something behind this book. The concepts are drawn from Hinduism and particularly about understanding the ego, self, self-realisation and self-awareness. I guess the good thing is that at least it does get the message across to the new age masses. But personally, I would go straight to the source from where the author get these ideas from... The Bhagavad Gita, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, books by Swami Vivekananda etc etc.
