Stillness Speaks

Expanding on his mantra--"Get out of your head and into the moment"--Eckhart Tolle offers this new book on living in the now. Stillness Speaks emphasises the art of "inner stillness"--the place where thoughts, ego and attachments fall always and we are left only with what the moment has to offer: "When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose touch with the world".

Don't expect this to be a quick skim or even a straight-through read. Like his previous bestselling book The Power of Now, Tolle uses brief entries and numerous white spaces to give readers easy in-and-out access into enticing spiritual insights that expound on inner stillness, such as learning the difference between surrender and resignation, overcoming the fear death, and how to end suffering. In fact, this is designed to be an ongoing conversation. Pick it up any time or any place, but be sure to allow for plenty of breaks for serious contemplation. Even as you occasionally abandon the book, don't abandon the teachings, pleads Tolle. Embracing and practicing inner stillness is no longer a luxury, he writes,

but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically things are getting worse and better at the same time, although "the worse" is more apparent because it makes so much noise.

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More spontaneous wisdom from Tolle. - Rated
Becoming aware of space and silence where ever you are creates an inner space between your thoughts, an inner stillness. This inner stillness takes you beyond your thinking mind (ego) and reveals the un-manifested dimension where problems cease to exist and you always have everything you need.

stick with it - Rated
I have to admit to not understanding a thing that was written, a book to profound and deep. Spoken in riddles and tree hugging phrases a book you have to want to read, and not one you buy as a gift for some one else unless you are sure they ARE SPIRITUAL beings. Well this was my opinion when I first started to read it, but now I have changed my mind after I stuck with it and opened my mind to many of the things I read. I will keep trying to understand but I guess it's going to take me for ever. Nevertheless thank you Kerry for the gift.I would have rather read it than not.

A collection of 'signposts' - Rated
While the CD’s aren’t intended to be ‘entertaining’ they are perhaps a little too ‘dry’. Eckhart Tolle presents many ‘signposts’ as he calls them. While the CD may be of interest to collectors of signposts, the CD is not very engaging and lacks the subtle dynamism and wry sense of humour of his talks in front of a live audience or at retreats. I’d still recommend buying the CD’s if you can afford them, but if you have a limited budget I’d recommend you buy his ‘live’ recordings in preference.

inspiring and comforting - Rated
I found this audiobook to be very relaxing and comforting. Eckhart Tolle seems to remind you that peace is what is really important,and is what you lose the most if you get too involved with mass consciousness, but through paying attention to the stillness all around you and more importantly within you, you can rediscover the peace in the Now that is everyone's salvation.He is a wise and empathetic teacher who truly lives his message, and there is a lot here to inspire others.

Stillness promoting - Rated
This book is an attempt to recognize the stillness that lies beneath all. Stillness is the gate through which we enter into, what they call in Tao the Great Way, in Christianity, where we realize God. All through our lives, our minds are filled with voices, essentially other people's voices which, through repititon (a conditioning of sorts), we come to accept as our own. From this, we form our view of the world, our reality. Beneath this, is reality itself, existing in complete stillness, or neutrality, going wherever it wants to go, completely uninterested in our version of it. Often, our version of reality diverges with reality itself. Voices in our minds tell us to go one way, while reality goes its own way. That's when we feel suffering and dissatisfaction. If we learn to slowly disengage with many of these voices, all that mental noise, we become more and more in tune with stillness, listening less and less to our own mental noice, more and more to this stillness. Result: we become less and less in conflict with reality as it is. We flow with life, not against it. This book is a great pointer to that stillness, but not stillness itself, as Eckhart Tolle will tell you. Nevertheless, it is a great guide on the pathless path to stillness. Also recommended are Byron Katie and Tony Parsons.