The New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

By IRB Media

This companion to A New Earth includes:

Overview of the book

Important People

Key Takeaways

Analysis of Key Takeaways

and much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781944195779

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| Overview |

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle is a nonfiction book about individual spiritual enlightenment and how this can positively affect humankind. To further evolve, humanity must now shift away from ego-based identification, with its excessive attachments to the material world, emotional pain, and endless thoughts, and toward a way of existence or Being that recognizes the presence of a unified, divine spirit in everyone. The ego provides an illusory sense of self, one that reinforces the idea of human separation and that leads to negative behaviors and toxic emotions.

In the twentieth century, ego-driven perceptions and an over-reliance on rationalism gave rise to massive dysfunction in society, with an unprecedented outbreak of war and mass violence. Meanwhile, at their core, the teachings of Jesus and Buddha speak to an enlightened consciousness and the liberation from human suffering, or in other words, a release from believing that the small-minded ego, with its worries and attachments, encompasses all we are on an existential level. The transformational bridge from the ego to enlightenment is simple: one must become aware of the ego’s dysfunction. To overcome the ego, one doesn’t have to do anything other than recognize ego-based thoughts and create an inner space around them. This, in turn, can help people recognize the Oneness of existence, or the non-material aspects of Being. Each individual who awakens