Eckhart Tolle's subject is the thinking mind and its habit of pulling attention away from the present moment. In an exchange of questions and answers, he argues that presence is the way out of pain.

Readical Key Points

• Spiritual teaching centered on present-moment awareness, written largely in question-and-answer form
• A #1 New York Times bestseller, translated into 69 languages with more than 20 million copies sold, according to the publisher
• First published in Canada in 1997; the publisher notes a preface the author wrote for this New World Library edition
• Paperback, 256 pages, New World Library, 2004

Tolle separates the thinking mind from what he calls Being, and he presents the mind as both the obstacle to that awareness and a source of the pain people create for themselves. Ten chapters move from that distinction through presence and the inner body to relationships, peace beyond happiness and unhappiness, and surrender. Questions a reader might raise interrupt the teaching throughout, and he answers each one directly.

His publisher describes his teaching as tied to no single religion, doctrine or guru. It suits readers of contemplative and mindfulness writing, readers who know A New Earth, and anyone returning to a book they first met years ago. Tolle offers spiritual teaching, not therapy or a substitute for mental health care.

About the Author

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and the author of The Power of Now, A New Earth and Stillness Speaks.

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