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New York Times bestselling author Eckhart Tolle — Learn the transformative power of living in the now

Attaining Eckhart Tolle’s state of presence: In Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle illuminates the fundamental elements of his teaching, addressing the needs of the modern seeker by drawing from all spiritual traditions. At the core of the book is what the author calls “the state of presence,” a living in the ‘now’ that is both intensely inspirational and practical.

The power of now: When the pressures of future and past thinking disappear, fear and frustration also vanish, conquered by the moment. Stillness Speaks takes the form of 200 individual entries, organized into 10 topic clusters that range from “Beyond the Thinking Mind” to “Suffering and the End of Suffering.” Each entry is concise and complete in itself, but, read together, take on a transformative power.

If you have read The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer, Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson, or other Eckhart Tolle books such as The Power of Now, you will want to own and read Stillness Speaks.

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September 12, 2012
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Tolle's ideas have origins in many spiritual and philosophical traditions--Buddhism, existentialism, and, from the mental health realm, gestalt therapy. "When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world," he states, while offering the state of being still as an ever-available tonic for the distractions from the outside world. Tolle's presentation can be jarring--he frames his prescriptions with moderately long silences between his statements. This intensifies the absorption of the ideas so that we're less likely to gloss over them in the busy stream of our listening habit. A precious recording from an author whose ideas are important for this time in history. T.W. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Expanding on his mantra—Get out of your head and into the moment—Eckhart Tolle offers this new book on living in the now. Here Tolle emphasizes the art of "inner stillness"--the place where thoughts, ego and attachments fall always and we are left only with what the moment has to offer: "When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world." Don't expect this to be a quick skim or even a straight-through read. Like his previous bestselling book The Power of Now, Tolle uses brief entries and numerous white spaces to give readers easy in-and-out access into enticing spiritual insights that expound on inner stillness, such as learning the difference between surrender and resignation, overcoming the fear death, and how to end suffering. In fact, this is designed to be an ongoing conversation. Pick it up any time or any place, but be sure to allow for plenty of breaks for serious contemplation. Even as you occasionally abandon the book, don't abandon the teachings, pleads Tolle. Embracing and practicing inner stillness is no longer a luxury, he writes, "but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically things are getting worse and bett! er at the same time, although 'the worse' is more apparent because it makes so much noise." Devotees who have read all of Tolle's books and audio tapes probably won't find new ideas or information here. But they may appreciate the refresher course --revisiting familiar concepts in a slightly different package. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Praise for "The Power of Now: "A reminder to be truly present in our own lives and liberated from our past and future. It can transform your thinking. The result? More joy, right now." --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

About the Author

Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and graduated from the University of London. When not traveling and lecturing, he lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Some readers of this slim follow-up to the bestselling The Power of Now may be alarmed that the seemingly wise and gentle Tolle writes in the introduction that his new work "can be seen as a revival for the present age of the oldest form of recorded spiritual teachings: the sutras of ancient India." Tolle explains that the Vedas and Upanishads, as well as the words of the Buddha, the parables of Jesus and the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching can be thought of as sutras in the sense that they share a brevity that "does not engage the thinking mind more than is necessary." Like those great sacred works, Tolle continues, his writings come from inner stillness. "Unlike those ancient sutras, however, they don't belong to any one religion or spiritual tradition, but are immediately accessible to the whole of humanity." Repeating what has become a familiar if no less ominous note in contemporary spiritual life, he adds that this unprecedented accessibility is due to the urgent need for humanity to wake up if we are not to destroy ourselves. It is the stillness that is our common Being-which is the formless container for what is happening in the now-"that will save and transform the world." In the brief chapters that follow, Tolle describes stillness with eloquent economy. Beautiful stand-alone paragraphs offer insight into the defensive nature of the ego versus what he sees as our true being, the attentive, receptive mind behind thought, the spaciousness and peace that blossoms inside when we accept what is, including death. "Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind." No one will doubt that Tolle has freed himself from nagging thoughts and fears. But the rest of us?
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00149ZWSQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ New World Library - New World Library - New World Library (September 12, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2000 KB
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Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany. When he was 29, a profound spiritual transformation virtually dissolved his old identity and radically changed the course of his life. He is now a counsellor and spiritual teacher, and the author of The Power of Now, Practising the Power of Now and Stillness Speaks. He lives in Vancouver.

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This is my favorite books of all time

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2016

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This is my favorite books of all time. The writings are segmented in to small sections, yet incredibly powerful. I can read for 30 seconds and become present. Even looking at the book can make my mind become stiller, I might recommend reading the Power of Now or A New Earth first if you haven't read one of Eckhart Tolle's books before this, just because that's what I had done and it made a few concepts more understandable but you can't go wrong with any of those three books in my opinion.

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May be my favorite Eckhart book (but needs a different cover)

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2020

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I love this book so much. Someone once said of the Tao Te Ching that you could read it in 30 minutes or a lifetime. I would say the same about Stillness Speaks, although it might take you an hour or so to read it cover to cover. Most of Eckhart's core teachings are here, including the pain body and inner body awareness, although the words will be even more meaningful if you've read A New Earth and/ or The Power of Now. The 10 chapters make an excellent meditative reading, and I find a certain energy and charge in the words that Eckhart attributes to presence. One quibble: The cover design of Stillness Speaks resembles one of those cheesy inspirational/ Christian books. The UK version of this book has a much more inviting cover (see the purple paperback). That said, this might be my favorite Eckhart book, and I find myself reading it nearly every day. Allow it to, and it will change your life.

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This is an excellent book! One of those books that does not ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2018

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This is an excellent book! One of those books that does not need to be read all at once, but in little moments of reflection. I would compare it to my favorite book, I AM THAT, by Sri.Nisargadatta. The insights here touch the deepest part of awareness. I love it. And highly recommend Stillness Speaks to anyone who is experiencing a conscious awakening and wants to focus on that inner space thru simplicity and open-eyed meditation.

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Highly essential to contact your Essence

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2017

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Find it buy it...full of reflective aphorisms, or short sayings, sutras, to live by, pointers to the truth using words that in the act of reading become thoughts in your mind, but not ordinary thoughts---repetitive, noisy, self serving, clamoring for attention...The thoughts within this book don't say "look at me," but Look beyond me." Because the thoughts came out of stillness, they have power to take you back into the same stillness from which they arose. That stillness is also inner peace, and that stillness and peace for the essence of your Being.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2019

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I don't know if it's because I've read Power of Now, but this isn't as moving for me as that. Lots of things repeat, and I do know that the reason is, for the greater part, these concepts aren't difficult. And sometimes you just need to keep repeating them until you've clicked.

That said, I wouldn't wanna speak poorly of any of the works of Tolle. He's a good teacher, and I appreciate this message. I find his original work to be the best by far, though A New Earth is definitely very close to Power of Now. This is the weakest of those three, but I actually might find myself appreciating it. Sometimes you just need a quick little kick in the pants. Or a meditation point. Or there's that one thing you want to be reminded of. This is like the Cliff's Notes version of his books. And that's certainly got its function! Four stars, for me... but as a supplement to Power of Now/ New Earth.

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This book saved my life

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016

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This book changed my life! I felt like I was spinning out of control and maybe going crazy, then a friend recommended this book to me. I have read it 3 times already and I'm getting a little more out of it each time! This book is for you if you have an obsession with the past and your mind likes to make up stories about the future. If you are looking to quiet your mind and feel good again, this book is for you. Its not an easy read, thus the many times I've already read it. But after I was done with this book, I purchased The New Earth, another book written by Tolle. Love, love, love that book. They go hand in hand. I highly recommend this book!

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Very deep lessons

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2016

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Finishing this book is like being pregnant according to my partner. You start out with all this knowledge and information only to realize 9 months later you really didn't know anything to begin with. I say the same thing, but use children as my example. Nothing will prepare you and you will go deep while learning to be still.

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I reread this book at the end of every year.

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2020

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It is good to be reminded of Truth. I am grateful to Tolle for this book. When his The Power of Now came out, and when I received it as a Christmas gift, it took me many years to sit down and read it. I needed painful experiences. After receiving the grace of participating in a ten-day vipassana meditation course, I knew it was time to put into practice Tolle's teachings, which coincide with S. N. Goenka's. I finished reading A New Earth as well, which is a great follow-on of The Power of Now. I wanted something distilled to reread every year to recalibrate me to the Now, to I Am, and it is this book, Stillness Speaks. I only hope that Tolle writes a book based on his course Conscious Manifestation, because after 2020, we as a species truly need to create more consciously on this planet.

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Laughing Buddha

Beyond all words and philosopies there is........stillness......

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2019

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In the late 1990s Eckhart Tolle shot to fame in the world of contemporary spirituality with the publication of his book The Power Of Now, and a few years later, with good help from Oprah Winfrey and her book club, his popularity and success moved onto a whole new level with the book A New Earth. In-between these two excellent books he published another little book that in its own unique way is as good, but not nearly as well-known and popular as it deserves to be. This book is called Stillness Speaks and it is a lovely collection of sutra-like statements centred on some of Eckhart Tolle’s most familiar themes.

The book is divided into 10 chapters, each dealing with a particular subject, such as The Now, Acceptance and Surrender, Silence and Stillness, Nature, Relationships, and Who You Truly Are. These are all subjects that Eckhart Tolle has covered extensively in his two other main books, but the difference here is that instead of writing about each theme in great detail, he writes just short statements which can all be read separately. In other words, you can just open the book anywhere you like and read something, and regardless of what you chance upon, it is bound to be very good, inspiring and enlightening. This book is more suited for quiet introspection, meditation and reflection than for the kind of thorough study and exploration that The Power of Now and A New Earth invite. To give you a feeling of what Stillness Speaks really is about, it might be useful to quote from Eckhart Tolle’s introduction to the book:

“This is not a book to be read from cover to cover and then put away. Live with it, pick it up frequently, and, more importantly, put it down frequently, or spend more time holding it than reading it. Many readers will feel naturally inclined to stop reading after each entry, to pause, reflect, become still. It is always more helpful to stop reading than to continue reading.”

This might seem like a rather strange kind of advice from an author, but the funny thing is that this book, more than any other I’ve come across, really does seem to invite the reader to just hold it, look at it, and thus experience or feel the essence of it. It is a rare book indeed that has the power to induce a state of peace and meditation just by being held, but Stillness Speaks carries that little extra special something. It is a beautiful book in all respects, and one to be loved and treasured over a lifetime. Stillness Speaks may be a small book, but in its own unique way, it is a channel of transformation and authentic spiritual maturity.

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KNUT

A book to dip into.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2017

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Based on 'The Power of Now' his first book. It is basically full of out-takes from that book so you will find this repetitive as it is the same material. however it is a book that can be picked up and dipped into anywhere. It is in the form of short paragraphs to read and reflect on and practise as appropriate.

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LW

A good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2018

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to use on a regular basis, just to dip in for reminders, when I am "stuck". I usually open randomly and find an appropriate piece of wisdom, to bring me back to presence.

12 people found this helpful

Mr Ush

As good as his other books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2017

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As a guide to living in the present moment as good as, if not better than, the author's other books. Not too much terminology or psycho-babble. Very down to earth and yet at the same time very profound.

10 people found this helpful

FAW

Very practical spiritual enlightenment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2019

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Very practical spiritual enlightenment. A must have book, probably best with the audio addition.

Great for listening on walks whilst appreciating nature.

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