With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness,but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world.

With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness,but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

CHAPTER ONE The Flowering of Human Consciousness

Evocation

The Purpose of This Book

Our Inherited Dysfunction

The Arising New Consciousness

Spirituality and Religion

The Urgency of Transformation

A New Heaven and a New Earth

CHAPTER TWO Ego: The Current State of Humanity

The Illusory Self.

The Voice in the Head

Content and Structure of the Ego

Identification with Things

The Lost Ring

The Illusion of Ownership

Wanting: The Need for More

Identification with the Body

Feeling the Inner Body

Forgetfulness of Being

From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight

The Peace That Passes All Understanding

CHAPTER THREE The Core of Ego

Complaining and Resentment

Reactivity and Grievances

Being Right, Making Wrong

In Defense of an Illusion

Truth: Relative or Absolute?

The Ego Is Not Personal

War Is a Mind-set

Do You Want Peace or Drama?

Beyond Ego: Your True Identity

All Structures Are Unstable

The Ego's Need to Feel Superior

Ego and Fame

CHAPTER FOUR Role-playing: The Many Faces of the Ego

Villain, Victim, Lover

Letting Go of Self-Definitions

Pre-established Roles

Temporary Roles

The Monk with Sweaty. Palms

Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness

Parenthood: Role or Function?

Conscious Suffering

Conscious Parenting

Recognizing Your Child

Giving Up Role-playing

The Pathological Ego

The Background Unhappiness

The Secret of Happiness

Pathological Forms of Ego

Work--With and Without Ego

The Ego in Illness

The Collective Ego

Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality

CHAPTER FIVE The Pain-Body

The Birth of Emotion

Emotions and the Ego

The Duck with a Human Mind

Carrying the Past

Individual and Collective

How the Pain-Body Renews Itself

How the Pain-Body Feeds on Your Thoughts

How the Pain-Body Feeds on" Dram

Dense Pain-Bodies

Entertainment, the Media, and the Pain-Body

The Collective Female Pain-Body

National and Racial Pain-Bodies

CHAPTER SIX Breaking Free

Presence

The Return of the Pain-Body

The Pain-Body in Children

Unhappiness

Breaking Identification with the Pain-Body

Triggers"

The Pain-Body as an Awakener

Breaking Free of the Pain-Body

CHAPTER SEVEN Finding Who You Truly Are

Who You Think You Are

Abundance

Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself

Chaos and Higher Order

Good and Bad

Not Minding What Happens

Is That So?

The Ego and the Present Moment

The Paradox of Time

Eliminating Time

The Dreamer and the Dream

Going Beyond Limitation

The Joy of Being

Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego

As Without, So Within

CHAPTER EIGHT The Discovery of Inner Space

Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness

Falling Below and Rising Above Thought

Television

Recognizing Inner Space

Can You Hear the Mountain Stream?

Right Action

Perceiving Without Naming

Who Is the Experiencer?

The Breath

Addictions

Inner Body Awareness

Inner and Outer Space

Noticing the Gaps

Lose Yourself to Find Yourself

Stillness

CHAPTER NINE Your Inner Purpose

Awakening

A Dialogue on Inner Purpose

CHAPTER TEN A New Earth

A Brief History of Your Life

Awakening and the Return Movement

Awakening and the Outgoing Movement

Consciousness

Awakened Doing

The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing

Acceptance

Enjoyment

Enthusiasm

The Frequency-holders

The New Earth Is No Utopia

Notes

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