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| A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 60
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0452289963
Dewey Decimal Number: 204.4
EAN: 9780452289963
ASIN: 0452289963
Publication Date: January 30, 2008
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Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages -- SHIPS FROM CALIFORNIA -- please allow 2 to 3 weeks for delivery.
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 This book forgets human nature May 3, 2008
13 out of 54 found this review helpful
"Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" is not the road to happiness and fulfillment. Human nature as it exists in all people around the world cannot be overcome by the good intentions of a bunch of people who read this book. As for your life's purpose, it is to grow up, get married, have a couple of children, and concentrate on supporting and nurturing a loving family. If you do not do that, you will end up confused and reading books about what your life's purpose is.
Poorly written, needlessly repetitive, weakly regurgitated rehash of other cultures' ideas April 26, 2008
17 out of 37 found this review helpful
I suspect there is some sort of positive selection bias in the reviews that appear for this book here. Not only is it horribly written--both simplistically certain in the authority of its words and at the same time laughingly self-contradictory and inconsistent and imprecise--but it also doesn't bother to credit the folks from which these millennia old ideas have been lifted. Was it a marketing decision to include only the Jesus and New Testament stuff in what passes as a bibliography? This guy is a freak, and it is testament only to the dumbed down level of discourse in the United States (and Canada) and the popular sense of perfidy and meaningless of contemporary culture that this charlatan (although admittedly there has never been a dearth of commercially successful quick fix snake oil peddlers) would have been embraced to uncritically.
 Good Follow Up To the Power of Now April 16, 2008
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
A good follow up to The Power of Now. I wrote the following review about TPON and here it is repeated, but additional comments.
Reading this book was like a condensed version of the many classes I have attended from my spiritual teacher. Eckhart Tolle presents difficult to comprehend subjects in simple to understand language. However, do not expect that this "easy read" will result in instant enlightenment. He sets the basics down, it is up to the reader to absorb and act upon the lessons.
I always leave a weekend workshop at my spiritual teacher's ashram on a natural high. This book gave me that same feeling. It is a wonderful book to help guide you on your spiritual journey.
A New Earth guides the reader further along the path with excellent commentary. The book is grounding. Good reminder to keep my ego out of my way!
Author of the award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet.
A New Awakening April 14, 2008
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
For those looking at the reviews, it must be a little confusing to see so many 5 star ratings then lower scores. This book goes so deeply into our personal make up: how we define ourselves if someone should ask "who are you", dealing with children, and your own demons so to speak. Who we are is what this book is all about. To me, I can't see everyone not getting a benefit from this book. It isn't religion, it doesn't request any change to a new following, nor any changes to ones beliefs. But boy does it open a door to ourselves, dealing with others, and recognizing things that have never been addressed about our thoughts and how we are being held back in total mind confussion.
For those deeply troubled with life problems and dispair, I don't think you will ever find a better book to help you in understanding why these things get you down and how to solve them. The book is so simple to read and everything is so well explained that you will get immediate results.
If you buy this book and go to oprah winfrey.com, you will find each chapter being reviewed each week and she has saved the broadcasts so everyone can listen to the author Eckhart Tolle explain what each chapter means and how to get peace of mind in less then 30 seconds. That's right, 30 seconds or less which helps all of us deal with any problem from child raising, drug problems, just wanting to improve your life, dealings with the negatives in us and around us. On a telecast of Oprah Winfrey's show, she spoke to a lady with terminal cancer and how this book changed her life!! That's power.
This book is the best $13.00 I have ever spent! I think all of us who just want a better life in general will benefit from this book. If you don't, you just aren't ready as Mr. Tolle says in first chapter. Buy this book.
 Peace? April 10, 2008
10 out of 65 found this review helpful
This book doesn't bring peace. The only way you can find peace is through Jesus and his word. Eckhart may be trying to "enlighten" or "awaken" your life's purpose, but why don't you try sitting down to pray and ask God to show you your life's purpose? Buy a copy of a devitional Bible from Amazon, you will find it's the most fascinating book out there, more so than any book Mr. Tolle will ever write. I am not one of those people who thinks of everything in a "religious" light, but I am telling you, this book is not what everyone is thinking it is. Trust me.
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