Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
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Book Reviews of Stillness Speaks
Book Review: Already flagged, tagged, and marked up
Summary: 5 Stars
I am n ot that much into self-help and inspirational type books, but this one touches a chord. In the introduction, Tolle says if you read it looking for food for thought you will be disappointed, possibly because he is trying to get us out of our heads, away from thinking and into knowing. But I am finding much to think about here; I read a couple of passages and close the book and let what I just read soak in.
I got into Tolle because of a recommendation from a therapist that I'd approached for help in dealing with my chronic tinnitus, which I've had for years and perceive as getting louder. I know it is not going away, but I wanted help to learn how not to react to it, not let it annoy me so much. Dr. Tolle has already helped me to understand that acceptance of things that can't change is so much more liberating than resistance, and I have already begun to think of the sounds in my head as an opportunity to be more aware of the present.
Book Review: Profound Truth and Wisdom
Summary: 5 Stars
Once again Eckhart Tolle brings us a gift of enlightenment that speaks to our soul. I read this book from cover to cover, enthralled by the simplicity of the messages and their important application to my life. What I love about this book is how wonderful it is to go back to and re-read even a simple sentence, and how much of a difference that sentence makes when our ego has us caught in appearances, rather than in simply Being.
Thank you Eckhart Tolle for adding much needed Light to our world. This book is a classic, a wonderful contribution, and will certainly raise the peacefulness within the consciousness of humanity for all who are wise to take in the messages you brought us. Highly recommended.
Barbara Rose, Ph.D. author of Know Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Wholeness, Radiance & Supreme Confidence and Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE
Book Review: inspiring
Summary: 5 Stars
This books is excellent and inspiring. It's different from the Power of Now or A New Earth in that it's not so much a cohesive work with a reasoned argument but more of a collection of short insights and aphorisms. It's the kind of book you can just pick up and open at any page at any moment - and whatever you read, it's guaranteed to give you wisdom and a glimmer of enlightenment, since all of the words in it come from the spiritual ground of all reality. Eckhart is a conduit from that spiritual source and everything in this book is pervaded with it. Eckhart's work has led me to several other excellent books which are recommended on his website, such as De Mello's and most of all The Fall by Steve Taylor The Fall: The Evidence for a Golden Age, 6,000 years of Insanity and the Dawning of a New EraBook Review: Helps quiet the mind
Summary: 5 Stars
Stillness Speaks is a quiet book. It's small, filled with empty spaces and words that are succinct and point in a certain direction -- towards stillness and silence.Those who are looking for concepts and ideas to give them "MORE", or to fill up their minds, will not find it here.
Many reviewers on this site sound annoyed and feel they didn't get something worth their money - that they read it quickly and felt nothing afterwards.
If you're ready, this book will speak to you. When I first read "The Power of Now", my reaction was something like, "Yeah, yeah, we're supposed to be in the present moment. Now what?" I felt frustrated by the book. But when I read it several months later, it was a completely different experience.
Stillness Speaks takes you into an even quieter place, if you let it and if you are ready.
Book Review: The Power of Stillness
Summary: 5 Stars
Mr. Tolle once again utilizes a present-state awareness to draw the reader into a similar depth. It isn't so much what this book says, as how it says it. Many of the ideas expressed are more or less recaps of his, and other, teachings. But it is reflective of the meditative awareness produced by reading such works as A Course in Miracles, and hence its appeal extends far beyond most teachings. Along with The Power of Now, it should rank as one of the major spiritual classics of the century. There is a great power in stillness, lying deep and dormant within everyone. When the mind is stilled, it returns naturally to an awareness of its--and Life's--original state, unleashing all kinds of unimaginable effects. This state is accessible through the present moment, which is where this book focuses the reader.