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

It requires honesty to see whether you still harbor grievances, whether there is someone in your life you have not completely forgiven, an “enemy.”

What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person.

The first part of this truth is the realization that the “normal” state of mind of most human beings contains a strong element of what we might call dysfunction or even madness.

The human brain is a highly differentiated form through which consciousness enters this dimension.

When you don’t play roles, it means there is no self (ego) in what you do. There is no secondary agenda: protection or strengthening of your self.

What you may be aware of as a voice in your head that never stops speaking is the stream of incessant and compulsive thinking.

an addiction lives inside you as a quasi-entity or subpersonality, an energy field that periodically takes you over completely.

dukkha, which can be translated as suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or just plain misery.

Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. And