Summer Read: Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth

Reading a book. Yes it still happens after college. I try and make a point to have a new book every summer, just for the heck of it. This summer I am reading Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. He previously wrote the Power Of Now.

I was recommended this book from a customer of mine, he used to work for the government and is a very educated individual who decided he made enough money and wanted to support his son's hobby, skateboarding... so he opened up a shop. Then I went into Borders and asked the chic where it was at... she had also read it so I was pretty convinced at this point to purchase it. I mean, as if Oprah's book club wasn't enough... ;)

I found this book in a time when I needed it most. I was getting super overwhelmed with people's ego's, as well as my own ego getting in the way of daily decisions and goals, dictating their actions, and me holding those ego actions against them as if it was something personal. I needed a deeper understanding of the mind, more psychology classes please. This book is an insightful look on the EGO, and Eckhart's definition of society's current state of mental dysfunction. Because things can not define a person, because things, as we are, can be replaced or die off. Things are impermanent. As life is.

See the introduction and pre-face below.

Reading a book. Yes it still happens after college. I try and make a point to have a new book every summer, just for the heck of it. This summer I am reading Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. He previously wrote the Power Of Now.

I was recommended this book from a customer of mine, he used to work for the government and is a very educated individual who decided he made enough money and wanted to support his son's hobby, skateboarding... so he opened up a shop. Then I went into Borders and asked the chic where it was at... she had also read it so I was pretty convinced at this point to purchase it. I mean, as if Oprah's book club wasn't enough... ;)

I found this book in a time when I needed it most. I was getting super overwhelmed with people's ego's, as well as my own ego getting in the way of daily decisions and goals, dictating their actions, and me holding those ego actions against them as if it was something personal. I needed a deeper understanding of the mind, more psychology classes please. This book is an insightful look on the EGO, and Eckhart's definition of society's current state of mental dysfunction. Because things can not define a person, because things, as we are, can be replaced or die off. Things are impermanent. As life is.

See the introduction and pre-face below.