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

almost everyone carries in his or her energy field an accumulation of old emotional pain, which I call “the pain-body.”

There are three ways in which the ego will treat the present moment: as a means to an end, as an obstacle, or as an enemy.

sense perceptions, thoughts or mental images, and emotions.

That “empty space” is life in its fullness, the unmanifested Source out of which all manifestation flows.

It is not your physical form but the life that animates the physical form.

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

So when watching television, the tendency is for you to fall below thought, not rise above it.

Ego is no more than this: identification with form, which primarily means thought forms.

Not all unhappiness is of the pain-body. Some of it is new unhappiness, created whenever you are out of alignment with the present moment, when the Now is denied in one way or another.

One conscious breath is enough to make some space where before there was the uninterrupted succession of one thought after another. One conscious breath (two or three would be even better), taken many times a day, is an excellent way of bringing space into your life. Even if you meditated on your breathing for two hours or more, which some people d