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Originally Posted by dancer  Dave, it doesn't sound like you have accepted what you have right now and that equates with resistance. I'm reading 'A New Earth' by Eckhart Tolle and it has explained much. I've found the book extremely provocative, and my ego has taken a severe battering, but does it make sense! Your recent posts come from your ego. Do yourself a huge favour and read 'The Power of Now' and 'A New Earth'. What do you have to lose? |
I would recommend "A New Earth" first. The Power of Now is so fricken confusing for me. I seriously think Eckhart was on something when he wrote it. It's brilliant, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't written in an easy to understand manner like "A New Earth" was. Only after I read "A New Earth" did parts of "The Power of Now" make sense to me.
It's almost like he skips around too much and doesn't answer the natural progression of questions that pop into the reader's head. Most great authors do that. They present a concept and instantly the reader begins asking himself "Yeah, but what about _________" and the author explains whatever ___________ is, and then the reader thinks "Right! That makes sense...hmmmmm... but what about ___________" and then the author addresses that. Almost like mind-reading what the reader is going to question next. It's like leading them down a path until the end conclusion and point is made.
The Power of Now didn't really do that for me. I would read, ask myself a question and then Eckhart would skip to something totally different. It's almost like reading a paragraph like this, with the natural questions one might ask in brackets:
"The moon is white, unless you're wearing blue sunglasses (why are you wearing sunglasses at night?). Chickens tend to agree more than roosters (agree to what?). This is how the universe unravels itself (what?). Independant of one another, we are not (Is this Yoda?). Practice this today (practice what?!)."
THat's my take on The Power of Now before I read "A New Earth". LOL.