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    Stillness Speaks
    Stillness Speaks
    Stillness Speaks
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    Stillness Speaks

    By Eckhart Tolle

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    The essence of Eckhart Tolle's message is easy to grasp: If we connect to the stillness within, we move beyond our active minds and emotions and discover great depths of lasting peace, contentment, and serenity. With his bestselling first book, The Power of Now, his message has reached millions of people worldwide. Now, in his much anticipated new book, Tolle gives us the essence of his teaching in short, simple pieces that anyone can easily understand. Stillness Speaks is organized into ten chapters whose subjects range from "Beyond the Thinking Mind" to "Suffering and the End of Suffering." Each chapter is a mosaic of individual entries, concise and complete in themselves, but profoundly transformative when read as a whole. Eckhart Tolle understands the spiritual needs of our time. He draws from the essence of all spiritual traditions, expressing these truths in startlingly fresh new ways. The result is a book that is paradoxically both ancient and contemporary, filled with timely and powerful messages. Stillness Speaks can be no less than an awakening for readers willing to give the words a chance to work their quiet magic. Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. In his writing and seminars, he conveys a simple yet profound message with the timeless and uncomplicated clarity of the ancient spiritual masters: There is a way out of suffering and into peace.

    Eckhart travels extensively, taking his teachings throughout the world. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateOct 5, 2010
    ISBN9781577313427
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    Eckhart Tolle

    Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating, and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Since 1995 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada. Eckhart Tolle is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time. In 2008, A New Earth became the first spiritual book to be selected for Oprah's Book Club as well as the subject of a ten-week online workshop co-taught by Eckhart and Oprah.

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    • 5/5
      I loved it great book. Everyone must read this book
    • 5/5
      This writing brings a wonderful re-awareness to his other teachings.
    • 5/5
      Another amazing and eye opening experience from Ekhart. I feel the improvement in my life after reading his books.
    • 5/5
      One of the most profound books ever written on self realization and the infinite self within. Enjoyed each and every word….
    • 5/5
      I feel short of words for expressing my indebtness to this legendry author.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Profound reflections on finding peace within ourselves. I was especially touched by a powerful chapter on dealing with pain and death. So much wisdom in here.

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    • 5/5
      Second time reading this again giving me a sence of pace.
    • 5/5
      very inspired and spiritual teaching

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    • 5/5
      Good, but The Power of Now is better.

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    • 5/5
      This is one of the books that began to change to my life. I recommend it to anyone open to it. It was the first book that began a change in my self. Eckhart Tolle provides a self help book without the self help. It has opened my eyes to the functions of the ego and has pulled many of my actions in my conscious mind, which is the first step in changing. It's a powerful book with principles that are so commonly over looked.

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    • 5/5
      I didn't read the book at once but little by little over time. Sometimes when I was in a mess, reading only a few pages helped me to realize there's an inner-peace inside me that I should go back to and simply just accept the situation. I've been meditating for a while now so I can understand almost what is said in the book. But I'm sure this is a book to be read over and over again. Each time we will realize something new and meaningful to the point we are when we read it.

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    • 5/5
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    Stillness Speaks - Eckhart Tolle

    STILLNESS

    SPEAKS

    Also by Eckhart Tolle

    The Power of Now

    Practicing the Power of Now

                      STILLNESS

    SPEAKS

    ECKHART TOLLE

    New World Library

    14 Pamaron Way

    Novato, California 94949

    and

    NamastePublishing

    P.O. Box 62084

    Vancouver, Canada V6J 1Z1

    Copyright © 2003 Eckhart Tolle

    All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

    Cover design by Mary Ann Casler

    Text design and typography by Tona Pearce Myers

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Tolle, Eckhart, 1948 –

    Stillness speaks / by Eckhart Tolle.

    p.   cm.

    ISBN 1-57731-400-x (hardcover : alk. paper)

    1. Spiritual life. I. Title.

    BL624.T647 2003

    291.4'4—dc21                   2003007916

    First printing, September 2003

    ISBN 1-57731-400-x

    Printed in Canada on acid-free, 100% post-consumer waste, recycled paper

    Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

    10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Chapter 1

    Silence & Stillness

    Chapter 2

    Beyond the Thinking Mind

    Chapter 3

    The Egoic Self

    Chapter 4

    The Now

    Chapter 5

    Who You Truly Are

    Chapter 6

    Acceptance & Surrender

    Chapter 7

    Nature

    Chapter 8

    Relationships

    Chapter 9

    Death & the Eternal

    Chapter 10

    Suffering & the End of Suffering

    About the Author

    INTRODUCTION

    A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being. The spiritual teacher is there to uncover and reveal to you that dimension of inner depth that is also peace.

    If you come to a spiritual teacher — or this book — looking for stimulating ideas, theories, beliefs, intellectual discussions, then you will be disappointed. In other words, if you are looking for food for thought, you won’t find it, and you will miss the very essence of the teaching, the essence of this book, which is not in the words but within yourself. It is good to remember that, to feel that, as you read. The words are no more than signposts. That to which they point is not to be found within the realm of thought, but a dimension within yourself that is deeper and infinitely vaster than thought. A vibrantly alive peace is one of the characteristics of that dimension, so whenever you feel inner peace arising as you read, the book is doing its work and fulfilling its function as your teacher: it is reminding you of who you are and pointing the way back home.

    This is not a book to be read from cover to cover and then put away. Live with it, pick it up frequently, and, more importantly, put it down frequently, or spend more time holding it than reading it. Many readers will feel naturally inclined to stop reading after each entry, to pause, reflect, become still. It is always more helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading. Allow the book to do its work, to awaken you from the old grooves of your repetitive and conditioned thinking.

    The form of this book can be seen as a revival for the present age of the oldest form of recorded spiritual teachings: the sutras of ancient India. Sutras are powerful pointers to the truth in the form of aphorisms or short sayings, with little conceptual elaboration. The Vedas and Upanishads are the early sacred teachings recorded in the form of sutras, as are the words of the Buddha. The sayings and parables of Jesus, too, when taken out of their narrative context, could be regarded as sutras, as well as the profound teachings contained in the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese book of wisdom. The advantage of the sutra form lies in its brevity. It does not engage the thinking mind more than is necessary. What it doesn’t say — but only points to — is more important than what it says.

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