Customer Reviews
A clear message for our times - By: D. Griffiths, 17 Oct 2008 
I feel Eckhart Tolle has his finger completely on the pulse.
It so clearly argued, & the best part is ; put it into practice & it works.
How could it not.
Erm! - By: Nel, 16 Sep 2008 
I found this too wordy & deep for a simple soul such as myself however I did as advised on the Oprah site & sat with 2 marker pensin different colours to underline that which I understood & that which I didn't. Needless to say one colour got a heck of a bashing!!
I've given it 3 stars though because I did actually get some really good bits out of it which I jotted down on the spare blank pages at the back (in my own words so I would understand later) & for that it was worth reading/buying.
What I am most chuffed about however is reading a review by Paul Chipperfield (lower down) recommending Cheri Huber's book which as he said is much kinder to us mere mortals & he is sooooo right!! Cheri Huber writesin a way I can understand & access reasonably easily - challenging still but achievably so!
Nice one mate!
There are better books out there - By: T. Young, 03 Sep 2008 
Reading this pretentious, sensationalistic, overblown book makes me want to dry-heave & at times a little sick actually came out my mouth from its eye-watering, vomit-inducting passages like.....
'By the end of the century, the number of people who died a violent death at the hand of their fellow humans would rise to more than one hundred million... we only need to watch the daily news on television to realise that the madness has not abated, that it is continuing into the twenty-first century. Another aspect of the collective dysfunction of the human mind is unprecedented violence that humans are inflicting on other life-forms & the planet itself.. blah blah'
You get the message. We are doommmmeeeeddd!!! Having to wade through scaremongering sensationalistic crap like that is annoying to say the least. The style of writing is like reading sheet from The Sun.
I did give it two stars because there is something behind this book. The concepts are drawn from Hinduism & particularly about understanding the ego, self, self-realisation & self-awareness. I guess the good thing is that at least it does get the message across to the new age masses. But personally, I would go straight to the source from where the author get these ideas from... The Bhagavad Gita, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, books by Swami Vivekananda etc etc.
super book - By: Mark S. Huber, 02 Sep 2008 Great one for the spiritual sceptics , stick with it there is something for everyonein here . Personally reccomended to a few friends somethingin here for everyone but if your reading it you probably dont need it , if yourin doubt go check out the "is that so" chapter at the book store
A big ego writes about ego - By: Dreamcatcher, 12 Aug 2008 
I was given this by someone who saw Oprah raving about it & bought two copiesin a state of excitement. I thought that the first three pages were quite good then was extremely disappointed as the rest went no further than to rehash Buddhism. My overriding concern is Tolle's continual denigration of the ego & his attempts to persuade us that if we could just annihilate any sense of being an individual or having individual thoughts or preferences we could all acheive permanent bliss. In fact, if we all followed this advice we would all coagulatein one big splurge of mush as no one would be allowed a personality at all.
This kind of spirituality feels very uncomfortable. I have always believed that the ego is a misunderstood beast & gets very bad pressin New Age circles. We each represent a shard of God, here to express & experience our uniqueness & to evolve the whole while understanding we are part of the whole to which we will return following death. In addition, Tolle's regurgitated & extreme trashing of the ego is incongruent given that he benefits from the proceeds from a whole range of products, from calendars to cards, emblazoned with his name. No ego there then!
This book feels like a quick attempt to jump on the coat tails of his previous book and, for me, offers nothing new. I am sure this will do very well for the Eckhart Tolle franchise but am concerned about the cost to anybody who adopts this philosophy without understanding that 'God' the Universe or whatever you believein gave us the ego for a reason. It enables you to find who you are & what you stand for. There is nothing inherently spiritual about voluntary self anhihilation. Even the Dala Lama left Tibet rather than adopting a stance of staying put & being 'meek'in the presence of danger. It isn't a New Earth it is a rehash & it doesn't say what it says on the tin 'awakening to your life purpose' should read 'putting your life purpose to sleep as it doesn't exist.'
