"A New Earth: Discover Your Life's Purpose and Awaken to a New Reality" (Oprah's Book Club Selection 61)

Pete from Chandler AZ: This book clearly defines the issue that had faced the human race on Earth for eons. Human's ego from the start has been the source of all suffering and destruction that is incomprehensible been here on beautiful Earth since beginning of time or no time. Get this book, read it, again, and again, until we stop this madness.

United States on Jan 26, 2024

Amazon Customer: I will always be grateful for the beautiful, simple , yet deeply emotionally intelligent, spiritual and kind words of Mr Tolle and the huge effect they've had on my life. They bring me back down to (a new 🙂) earth every time. He is a prophet and lives every word, never straying in to the many dangerous areas some gurus and spiritual teachers have. I cannot recommend this book enough.

United Kingdom on Jan 23, 2024

NB: I liked this book a lot more than the more popular book 'Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle. This book excels in the way the abstract concepts have been explained. I read this book at a time when I was struggling with bereavement and I found it pleasing to read and understand how the human thought faculty operates to "generate" the experience of pain. I have read a few books on Hindu Vedanta philosophy by different authors, but none could describe the concepts of consciousness and ego (form-identity) as lucidly as Eckhart Tolle has done in this book. The commonality and overlap of the philosophical ideas in this book with Vedantic principles is so striking. I have already read this book twice and am sure I will read it again in future as a refresher.

India on Jan 19, 2024

Olena: Easy to read and enlightening

Spain on Sep 15, 2023

Eva B. Dittrich: E.T. is someone who has identified the current issues with our world. "A New Earth" is a brilliant piece of literature that should be deemed essential reading in all schools. Through this practical read, E.T. successfully covers and describes all the significant aspects of our daily lives. This includes challenges in our interpersonal relationships, with our loved ones, partners, and even our children. If more people were to read and implement the teachings of this book, it would greatly benefit our society. Eckhart Tolle is a genius and an admirable individual.

Germany on May 14, 2023

Lila_0682: Well written, easy to read & provokes reflection and mindfulness in a way no other written book has ever done for me.

Mexico on Sep 07, 2022

Stephen V. Riley: Eckert Tolle's book "A New Earth" hardly needs another Amazon book review considering the 1,451 that have been submitted so far. After reading a number of the reviews, I was startled by the extraordinary esoteric thinking of many the reviewers. This is hardly typical of the average American mind. It appears the "New Age" movement has grown exponentially and it demonstrates the immense hunger for spirituality that has been so suppressed in American culture. In a way, this is sad because it represents a hunger that much of the institutional church is not fulfilling. The critical issue is that Christian spirituality is meant to be pro-active, generating the powerful forces of love, compassion, forgiveness and caring for others while the new secular spirituality can be extremely self-centered.

I have chosen to write this book review from the perspective a Catholic peace and social activist. Regardless, none of these reviews can substitute reading "A New Earth" because one needs to personally taste the absolute eloquence and powerful spiritual insights found in Eckhart Tolle's writing. Reading Eckhart Tolle is transformational. His writing is therapeutic. Chapter three, "The...

United States on Oct 03, 2009

Lisa Shea: First, I really recommend you start by reading Eckhart's previous book, The Power of Now, first. A lot of ideas glossed over in A New Earth were fully explained back in The Power of Now. This makes sense to me. You don't want Eckhart to write two books with the exact same content. It's like reading Harry Potter #2. You assume you know the relationships of people, their fears and goals and go from there.

You have to start out by separating the message from the messenger. Yes, Eckhart can be a bit pompous at times. Yes, he can blatantly state things like "this book is for spiritually awakened people - like those who read my previous book!" :) He talks about the pain-body as if it's an alien living in your stomach, ready to poke its head out. He talks about all corporations everywhere being evil, being all about profit. I know many corporations which do have very great aims. A corporation is just a legal structure. It depends on who runs it, as to what they are about. Heck, some of my friends have incorporated their small businesses to protect their homes. They're not about profit at all, they are very charity minded.

Eckhart has many factual errors. He perpetuates the...

United States on Jun 22, 2008