This may be Oprah's favorite book, but to me it is a well-presented mixture of Hindu cosmology, fatalist philosophy, some psycho-babble and pragmatic psychology. Having said that, I enjoyed this book.
You are the universe experiencing itself. You are not the content of your mind. You are not anything you can describe. You are that indescribable something that allows thought to exist and occur but is not thought itself. The thing that you may think is you is actually your ego and your fear. When you learn to "let go" of these two powerful delusions, you find your true self. You find peace. The tool for achieving this is mindfulness. Be here now. In the present. In this moment. It is the only time you really have. The past and the future exist only in the mind, which is delusory. Be here, now.
I liked the book. The prose is nice. The explanatory stories drawn from Buddhist tradition are charming. I'm prepared to overlook the chaff because the grain is so helpful. I may even read it a second time.
Publishing details: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 2005. 313pp.)
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