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After reading Practising the Power of Now I read this one.It goes more deeper than that.

Author gives us Profund Idea About Stillness.Stillness is our inner space of awareness. Stillness is our essential nature.

Author successfully describes how our egoic self controls our behaviour,Our Action & reactions.The ego need to be in conflict with something, that explains why we are looking for Peace joy & love but cannot tolerate them for very long.

Our daily lives are run by Desire & Fear.Desire is to add something to be what we are (We believe that we must have so many things to be a worthwhile person But its not true.Actully we are seeking for others Approval.) & fear of loosing it.It is just an Illusion.

We are not happy in our relationships because of our 'Ego' which tries to control others Life.

When We are still,We have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

We cannot find ourself in the 'Past' or 'Future' it is in "Now".

That's How "Stillness Speaks".


For spiritual beginners only!   May 6, 2004
 2 out of 10 found this review helpful

Eckhart Tolle is now making it as a writer. So much so that he hardly appears in public and when it does it is often to deliver a non-evolving monologue with no question time - proving that those who can't teach write! So that was what Tolle did for 8 years on a park bench.

The masses - those that read "to sleep perchance to dream" - may have earned brownie points by taking Oprah's recommendation to buy yet another book from her library, following in the steps of John Gray and Gary Zukav. However, hard-bitten veteran's of the cosmic circuit have asked why Tolle became a best-seller. Did the masses suddenly get religion?

Yes, they did. They got a watered-down mix of pop psychology and far-eastern promise dealt out by yet another Western philosopher to follow in the charismatic steps of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.

Tolle may appear to be lofty but that's just because the guy is basically a geek. He likes words and is more than happy to get paid for repeat lectures - not unlike Jeffrey Masson. Ram Dass had a bit more class, because he was upper class by US standards. But words don't cut it for real seekers. They are beyond all that.

Tolle's sequel is OK for beginners - and probably more digestible. However real seekers are better of staying out in the mountains and looking for a high lama or descending it the cities to find an urban guru like Dave Oshana. A trip to the bookstore for this sort of book is just a useless waste of time.


One-Star Reviewers Exposed!!   April 3, 2004
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The negative posts here tell far more about the reviewers than about Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks.

Perhaps his wondrous words are written in a style so simple and elegant it far exceeds their level of understanding?


Silliness Speaks   March 17, 2004
 0 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is the worst I've seen from Tolle yet. Nothing more than a collection of tautologies and scribbles from a man with way too much time on his hands. In fact, I am quite certain this work was plagiarized from a collection of fortune cookies stolen from a cheap chinese buffet.

RM


Better than Power of Now same content but more refined   February 27, 2004
I like the power of now but in some ways I found it long-winded and repeatative. The main message in the Power of Now is the importance of the observation of the stillness. At some points I feel PON loses its focus because of the deep insights and speculations about causality. I am in no way saying that I did not like the Power Of Now, I still believe it is worthwhile. But Stillness Speaks is the same message but it really comes through clearer and more direct. Some reviewers have articulated that it is the same content. That is true. Everything that is in PON is in Stillness speaks. I feel that Stillness Speaks is simply more user friendly.