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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose is a self-help book by Eckhart Tolle. First published in 2005, it sold 5 million copies in North America by 2009. In 2008 it was featured in a series of 10 weekly webinars with Tolle and Oprah Winfrey.

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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)

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Chapter 1, The Flowering of Human Consciousness

• Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: The first flower ever to appear on the planet opens up to receive the rays of the sun. Prior to this momentous event that heralds an evolutionary transformation in the life of plants, the planet had already been covered in vegetation for millions of years. The first flower probably did not survive for long...
• One day, however, a critical threshold was reached, and suddenly there would have been an explosion of color and scent all over the planet – if a perceiving conscious

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  Eckhart Tolle’s Most Transformational Words From A New Earth

  Oprah says that Eckhart Tolle’s 2005 spiritual manifesto, A New Earth is the most important book she’s ever read (and it’s safe to say: she’s read a lot). “It’s changed the way inom live my life, Oprah explained on her 2019 Super Soul podcast, “so much so that inom always have a kopia on my nightstand because I constantly give myself a uppfräschning course.” This month, Oprah is giving her Book Club a refresher too: for the first time in the club’s nearly thirty-year history, she has selected a previous Book Club pick again. Clearly, A New Earth deserves to be read in full—and several times over– to grasp all its insights, but even in a book where every page should be dog-eared, certain lines stand out. Here are fifteen of the book’s most impactful quotes on consciousness, ego, happiness, and spiritual growth.

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A New Earth Quotes

“A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite and superficial smile. She started telling me her story, and within one second her smile changed into a grimace of pain. Then, she began to sob uncontrollably. She said she felt lonely and unfulfilled.

There was much anger and sadness. As a child she had been abused by a physically violent father. I saw quickly that her pain was not caused by her present life circumstances but by an extraordinarily heavy pain-body. Her pain-body had become the filter through which she viewed her life situation.

She was not yet able to see the link between the emotional pain and her thoughts, being completely identified with both. She could not yet see that she was feeding the pain-body with her thoughts. In other words, she lived with the burden of a deeply unhappy self. At some level, however, she must have realized that her pain originated within herself, that she was