A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose"[Oprah] Winfrey calls the book 'a wake-up call for the entire planet, one reader at a time.'" —USA Today With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived “in the now.” In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life—and for building a better world. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Our Inherited Dysfunction | 8 |
Spirituality and Religion | 17 |
A New Heaven and a New Earth | 23 |
The Voice in the Head | 30 |
The Lost Ring | 38 |
The Core of Ego | 59 |
Being Right Making Wrong | 66 |
Presence | 164 |
Unhappiness | 172 |
The PainBody as an Awakener | 180 |
Who You Think You Are | 186 |
Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself | 192 |
Not Minding What Happens | 198 |
The Paradox of Time | 204 |
Going Beyond Limitation | 210 |
The Ego Is Not Personal | 72 |
All Structures Are Unstable | 79 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 85 |
Preestablished Roles | 90 |
Role or Function? | 97 |
Conscious Parenting | 103 |
The Pathological Ego | 109 |
Pathological Forms of Ego | 118 |
The Ego in Illness | 124 |
The Birth of Emotion | 131 |
The Duck with a Human Mind | 137 |
How the PainBody Renews Itself | 144 |
How the PainBody Feeds on Your Thoughts | 145 |
Dense PainBodies | 151 |
National and Racial PainBodies | 157 |
As Without So Within | 217 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 223 |
Falling Below and Rising Above Thought | 229 |
Can You Hear the Mountain Stream? | 236 |
The Breath | 243 |
Inner and Outer Space | 250 |
Lose Yourself to Find Yourself | 254 |
A Dialogue on Inner Purpose | 262 |
CHAPTER | 279 |
Awakening and the Outgoing Movement | 288 |
The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing | 295 |
Enthusiasm | 301 |
The New Earth Is No Utopia | 307 |
About the Author | 315 |
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