Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
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Book Reviews of Stillness Speaks
Book Review: 5 stars +
Summary: 5 Stars
A wondrous book that continues to point the way to our inner stillness. These 'teachings' very simply say and show one how to be still and to Be with this stillness. Reminding us of the Golden Thread the connects all of the original Teachings from throughout the ages, the words are arranged in short paragraphs that impact our Being beyond the mind, allowing more Stillness to emerge. Even as some people, perhaps through the ego, have expected this book to have more words and new messages, Stillness Speaks reminds us of true simplicity and purpose of a Conscious Life. Simply by holding this book, one might feel the energy of the book, the teachings, the consciousness emanating from within it.
If anyone has disliked or loved any of Eckhardt Tolle's books, tapes, or videos; its important to listen and to read the words and pointers over and over again. Each time a new 'understanding' will come through for each of us. Sometimes it seems like reading a 'new' book ... same 'words', yet a greater and deeper knowing.
There is nothing to anticipate with this work or this material, simply to Be with it, and to Be with What Is.
With gratitude to Eckhardt.
Book Review: A great addition to Power of Now
Summary: 5 Stars
I guess it should not be surprising that most of the on-line reviews of this book are all at the extremes. As Tolle says himself, it is hard to communicate beyond words when you are communicating with words. What I liked about this small volume (the price aside) is that it captures in Tolle's very clear and precise wording the various messages in the Power Of Now and drives them home with even more precision and poignancy than that first volume. In fact, for me, he is effectively responding to a few questions I had from reading that earlier book, questions that were not answered in the book itself. How can you get beyond thought when the medium of the message is "words" that must necessarily be processed through the thinking process in the first instance? I don't know, and he doesn't, but I like the very practical suggestions that he makes, indeed the same ones he made in the Power of Now, but with greater focus and clarity - the silence between sounds, the spaces in what we see, the gaps between words in a conversation. For me this is an excellent addition to the Power of Now, and well worth the price.Book Review: Stars seem irrelevant
Summary: 5 Stars
It's exceedingly difficult to give this book a "star rating" because it may be the greatest book ever written, or it may be a total crock. Tolle says if you can get past your chattering, discursive mind, you will enter a new place of bliss and stillness. Is this true? I don't know. I can't get past my chattering mind. Sometimes, when I pick this book up, I think it points the way to the salvation of mankind. Other times, it makes me think of what my grandfather used to tell me: "If you don't put your tongue in the place where your old tooth was, you will grow a gold one." This is simply a nasty thing to tell a child -- give them an impossible task, and tell them something cool would have happened if only they had been able to do it. But both this book and the Power of Now do make one indisputably valid point: we spend too much time in our heads, when we should realize deeply that the present moment is ALL WE EVER HAVE. I have not achieved transcendent bliss since I discovered Tolle, but I do more frequently take notice of the HERE and NOW, and find I am somewhat happier for it.
Book Review: Wisdom Speaking out.
Summary: 5 Stars
Eckhart ends Chapter 1 with these questions"Do you need more knowledge"?
"Is more imformation going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis"?
"Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time"?
But what is wisdom and where is it to be found?
He then comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions."
These few words from Eckart Tolle sum up the essence of what he is continuing to convey to the world. That is ...
True Freedom will be ours if we choose to "be still and just look and just listen" and APPLY the Wisdom which is speaking out from the stillness within each of us. It is the same stillness from which his words continue to emmanate out of and remind us, during those moments when we get lost back in mind, of the 'I Am' of our being-ness beyond name and form.
Thank You Eckhart
Ed Schulte
Book Review: How wonderful to be able to give 5 stars without reservation!
Summary: 5 Stars
To say that this author has changed my life is such an understatement. This is the first time that a wisdom has touched me so profoundly that a year after picking up "The Power of Now" I am still reaping the rewards of that book, of "A New Earth" and now, "Stillness Speaks." Who could imagine that Mr. Tolle's books could possibly get better and better? I'm not sure that they do. I think it's only that each one is so profound that you find yourself believing each is better than the last one you read because you learn so much from each. Today I re-read the sutra about "the dance of form." It literally opened up a whole new way of looking at life for me. It lifted me out of a despondent state and made me so excited about life again - in seconds. How to express my gratitude for such a gift? Simply, I suppose, to recommend this great writer and thinker and his books to others, and to practice being in the NOW as much as I possibly can. I truly believe it is the path to peace, love and understanding in this troubled world.