"mi really need anadda motivational book" was sarcastic
[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img] yup this is the one she pluggin. mi see people weh have all how much teen a dem book inna dem collection (motivational).
all a dem sound the same, suh at what point smaddy tired a read the book dem and juss seh "i muss get up and go forth and do what I want to do"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"i muss get up and go forth and do what I want to do" </div></div>
what a way u speakey spokey [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]
suh mi inna the bookstore this past weekend and read couple pages. it nuh sound like one motivational book at all. more spiritual blah blah. or enlightening. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img] this weekend mi guh back guh read couple more pages
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen_theFoodie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">suh mi inna the bookstore this past weekend and read couple pages. it nuh sound like one motivational book at all. more spiritual blah blah. or enlightening. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img] this weekend mi guh back guh read couple more pages </div></div>Mine dem mek yu jine di church of Oprah [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]
Any how beg yu read it an come back wid a book report. Oprah a do big class pan it, an yu can watch di video dem pan youtube. Mi waaan know if is di secret part 2 dis.
mi really noh get how people always a fall fi dem tings yah, can't think fi demself Jim jones.
In A New Earth, spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now) advocates present moment awareness and the dismantling of the ego as the path towards awakened living. A New Earth gets its title from a Bible verse referring to the rising of "a new heaven and a new earth." According to Tolle, "heaven" is the awakened state that will bring about "a new earth" in the outer world, the world of form.
Tolle begins with an extensive description of our principle barrier to the awakened state: ego. He indicts the word "I" as being a terrible feat of reductionism, as it infinitely minimizes who we truly are by allowing us to identify ourselves with our mind, our gender, our accumulated possessions, our social roles, and so on. He then informs us that the only way to diminish ego is by seeking the fullness of life in the present moment, that by making friends with the Now, we can destroy our time-bound state of consciousness and therefore destroy ego. Focus on the Now is focus on Being q rather than Doing, on presence rather than form:
"People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness, that is to say, dependent on form. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe. It changes constantly. They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn't have or as deficient becuse of something that has not happened but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that is always already here, that lies beyond what is happening or not happening, beyond form."
Tolle goes on to assert that awakening to the abundance that is already in one's life is the foundation for all abundance available, that abundance and scarcity are actually inner states. He cites examples from varying traditions - Christian, Zen, and Hindu - to assert the perfection of the Now, a concept that is as thematically central to this book as it was in The Power of Now.
Tolle presents A New Earth as a vehicle to bring about a shift in consciousness, though he repeatedly admits that he can only awaken those who are ready for such a transformation. He tells his readers that if they indeed find something within his book that resonates with them, then the shift has already begun, and they are on the path. <span style='font-size: 14pt'><span style="color: #660000">With millions of Oprah's Book Club members picking up copies of A New Earth, that path will doubtlessly become a road most traveled</span></span>
I'm a newbie, also an author; Jamaican-born, living in Orlando, FL. I published 2 Jamaican-oriented books (Christian Fiction/Novel)...read them. First one is called "Jamaica-Joy: Her American Dream" and the second one is called "Kingston City" --I think they will provide something beyond how-to and motivational material (avail. at B&N, Amazon, etc...) Let me know how you like them! Chao!
-JASCINTH BROCKINGTON
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