A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans

You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are, from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness you take to be yourself. What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. And what is a grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

When you recognize the unconsciousness in you, that which makes the recognition possible is the arising consciousness, is awakening.

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.

peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing. Enjoyment

Awakened doing is the alignment of your outer purpose—what you do—with your inner purpose—awakening and staying awake.

Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do.