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Originally Posted by BVB  I really like your blog Steve, but was dismayed by this article. It seemed defensive and insincere. While I am not an avid fan of Tolle, I find his work interesting, and reading your post made me think that something about Tolle threatens YOUR ego.
This was confirmed even more when you "name-dropped" the Oprah situation, as well as put down his demeanor.
There is something about him that must have hit a nerve, no?
I think I understand why. While your works evoke the sense of a "journey" towards contentment and personal development, his focuses on the LACK of journey, but instead only a journey into nearness, into immediacy. While your blog focuses on goals or ideas that are "out there," he writes there is nothing "out there" needed, because already within this moment, everything is whole and complete.
I find both techniques equally interesting, they are just different. Yet no need to make up things ("war on ego"? ) nor resort to passive aggressive behavior... |
I love your point of view BVB as that is exactly the feeling I got when I read this article. I tried to think positive as I love Steve's articles - but I could not help getting the feeling you speak of out of my mind.
And Alex - excellent comments too!!!
Besides that I was shocked that Steve was using the title of "war against ego" as I had no idea it was seen this way and have not heard it referred to as such. I know that is definitely not what Eckhart means. Perhaps people who are getting the messages about the ego all wrong would refer to it as that but not others who truly understand what this is all about.
I myself felt like I really understood the ego well and everything that surrounds it until I read this article from Steve. I do look at the bright side of this though, and that is that it gave me a greater expansion of this topic to think about before I got too comfortable with my current viewpoints.