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Eckhart Tolle's new book, A New Earth: awakening to your life's purpose is both deeply profound and wonderfully liberating.  Eckhart Tolle is particularly well known for The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks, yet this new book takes his spiritual teaching to an altogether different level.  In a simple and profound way he is able to illuminate several of the deepest truths revealed by teachers over the past 2,500 years.  His characterisation of the ego mind, its obsession with form and content, the accumulation of the individual pain-body, and the way in which humans have become so identified with the incessant mental chatter - "lost in thought" - is brilliant. 

Tolle acknowledges that words can never be adequate to describe the liberation that arises from awakening into consciousness, and our connection to both the space within and the universe of space, yet his ability to convey our ever-present access to Source and the joy of just Being is wonderful.  There is nothing to do in this book - no activities, no exercises, no checklists - just a shift in consciousness that let's you come alive.  I'm not sure any of this would have made much sense to me ten, or even five years ago.  Today it's absolutely mind-blowing for this stage of my spiritual journey.