About the book
Eckhart Tolle's follow-up to The Power of Now argues that moving beyond ego-based consciousness is the key both to personal happiness and to ending conflict in the world. Tolle defines the ego as an illusory sense of self built from memories and thoughts, and traces anger, jealousy and unhappiness to identification with it. He introduces the pain-body, an accumulation of old emotional pain, and separates inner purpose from outer purpose. Where the earlier book used a question-and-answer format, this one is written as a narrative. Oprah's Book Club chose it in 2008 and again in January 2025, the only title the club has picked twice.
Technology growth leader Patricia Reed says learning to separate ego from self changed how she sees people and her inner critic. Catherine Molloy, director of Auspac Business Advantage, reads passages from it to her students.
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This book has 2 recommendations
Catherine Molloy (Director/Auspac Business Advantage)
I am an experiential learner I need to see it, feel it, etc. so the book must move me to do something, feel something. With A New Earth I even read snippets to my students as I have experienced a lot of these concepts and write and train in similar concepts.
Patricia Reed (Technology Growth Leader & Mentor)
"The Power of Now", by Eckhart Tolle, as well as "A New Earth". Understanding the ego, and being able to separate it from self, is a powerful thing. It has changed my outlook on people and situations, and made me able to see my inner critic for what it is, and choose how I want to engage or respond to situations.
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