A New Earth

Guide Note

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose is Eckhart Tolle's follow-up to his bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now. In A New Earth, Tolle urges readers to reject "egoic consciousness" in favor of a new consciousness that will enable everyone to "experience who we truly are."

Sales of A New Earth benefit from Tolle's partnership with Oprah Winfrey, including appearances as featured guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and a ten week online seminar. The online seminar, streamed live over the Internet, included live interaction with Tolle and Winfrey, as well as user tools to follow along.

Fast Facts

1. Author: Eckhart Tolle
2. Publication: 2005
3. ISBN: 978-0452289963 (Quality Paperback)
4. Pages: 336
5. Title inspired by a passage in the Book of Revelations
6. Looks at the state of modern humanity
7. Preceded by The Power of Now
8. Oprah's Book Club: 1st Selection for 2008
9. Eckhart Tolle's fifth book.

1. If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived "enemies"-his own unconsciousness projected outward. Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals.
2. The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.
3. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.
4. Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.