Awakening...

[Michelle]

I have never been an avid reader of books, but a friend handed this book to me one day and said, "here see if you can make sense of all this". It was meant to be...

I literally just finished a book (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose - by: Eckhart Tolle), and at first, I was not getting into the book, but I pressed on and what I found was something amazing, and it did not come in physical form, fortune, or divine intervention.

My first mistake was that I wrapped myself up in the individual words of this book so much, that I literally could not see the bigger picture. As I kept reading on all the “little things” that make up the book (and life) came together more and more for me. I think that my hesitance came from the stigma I had adopted towards “self-help” books and I was not letting the true meaning of the book in at first. I was using my ego at first when reading this book by unconsciously thinking, “What can this book do for me?” I would later find out, after further reading, that was exactly the type of thinking that perpetuates the cycle of destruction (or that feeling of being stuck) in my own life.

I started out only using this book as a means to and end, which is what the ego feeds on. The ego is on a constant quest to feed on negative energy and even provokes it in others (for no reason sometimes) just to satisfy its hunger. I started to see these destructive activities in myself; I was appalled at first and sought a plan of action on what I could do to “become” a better person. However, that was my second mistake, thinking about the future. I needed to be content that I possess these qualities in the Now and accept that by just realizing "I am what I am right now". By doing so I was already making room for the good to come into me and I was literally cutting off the supply of negative energy that was feeding the ego.

Not to say that I have had some spiritual breakthrough, but I feel that I am well on my way to better understanding myself for sure! Very exciting to me.

[Michelle]

I did write that myself! LOL I think he's wonderful, and I agree about that stupid O! Book Club thingee. I didn't hear about through there however, just got it from my friend! I just really like the idea of not taking oneself so seriously and when you lease expect it, BAM! you are where you wanted to be.

[Carrie B!]

ok, ok... I'm with you here. Did you write all this?

Let me say 2 things....maybe 3. I've been into self-help books for many years and to me, it was another regurgitation of all the other books I read...so I was disappointed. AND, I was disappointed that is was a featured ( aaahhh do I say her name) that woman whose name begins with an O! I get tired of her being the BE ALL, the END ALL and we must all do what she thinks cause we don't have minds of our own. HA HA....joke's on her.

I'm glad you got what you got out of it. Tolle is fab; I just don't understand why he had to go through HER to get the message out! And yes, IT IS EXCITING!!! A new level of awareness for sure!