Stillness Speaks

A quote, picked totally at random.. this book is so poetic and a wonderful meditation on the Self and Who We Are.

Tolle is speaking from the still point, and strikes a bulls-eye (to the heart) with every phrase..

This is a book, of amazing depth; each paragraph is a meditation; if you contemplate each, the meaning will open up; try it, you'll be amazed.. well actually you'll be THAT in which amazement arises... if you get the point.


Wonderful beyond words. Poetic and deeply awakening   August 28, 2003
 2 out of 3 found this review helpful

"Spiritual seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize... that you don't need time to be who you are."

A quote, picked totally at random.. this book is so poetic and a wonderful meditation on the Self and Who We Are.

Tolle is speaking from the still point, and strikes a bulls-eye (to the heart) with every phrase..

My new gift book, I'll give one to every close friend I have, and know they will enjoy it as much as I.


A helpful revisit of the main signposts in The Power of Now   August 28, 2003
 12 out of 13 found this review helpful

The Power of Now is my all time favorite book. It has changed my life in ways no other book has. I first read it one and a half years ago and have read it diligently since then. I listen to the CD's in my car almost daily. Last year I had the priveledge of going on a 5 day retreat with Eckhart at the Omega Institute in New York. It was a powerful, life changing experience and I can say he is the real thing. He is an embodiment of what we're all looking for.

So I looked forward to Stillness Speaks since I read about it months ago. It is a good book. However, like Practicing the Power of Now, Stillness Speaks supports and strengthens the ideas in The Power of Now, but doesn't continue on from them. In other words, there's nothing new in Stillness Speaks. Which is fine and as it should be. The Power of Now said it all. Stillness Speaks seems designed as a way to go deeper into the concepts of The Power of Now. It's the main signposts in The Power of Now communicated and packaged in a different way. Therefore, it's not the new, groundbreaking book The Power of Now is. The content of Stillness Speaks will be familiar to everyone who has read The Power of Now. For this reason I give it four stars instead of five.

I know I'll be reading, contemplating and meditating on Stillness Speaks for years to come. Stillness Speaks is not a conventional book, but a series of 200 short entries that are meant to be read one by one and meditated on. I would say one would have to fully read The Power of Now in order to get full benefit from Stillness Speaks. As with Practicing The Power of Now, I would recommend Stillness Speaks to those who have read The Power of Now and want to go deeper into it.


Be Still, My Mind!   August 27, 2003
 10 out of 10 found this review helpful

With very few words, in a sutra style (spiritual one-liners) Eckhart captures the essence of his "Power of Now" philosophy and carries it further with little power blurbs that leave your conditioned mind spinning, causing it to run for cover of silence. Woah!

Good for little "peace breaks" throughout the day - keep it at your side and dip in often.

Drink deeply and ponder!


A Booklet--Not a Book   August 26, 2003
 8 out of 13 found this review helpful

I liked the Power of Now, but this followup really need not be published, because there is nothing new here. If all the spaces between the paragraphs were taken out, then this booklet would be about 50 pages and the thoughts on those pages have all been said before. One of the most glaring mistakes is what Tolle has to say about nature. He says learn from nature on how to be still. Hahahha. Gee, nature is moving all the time. The universe is expanding, cells divide and mountatins move. To say that nature stands still and stillness speaks really says volumes about how naive Tolle is and why some of his stated beliefs are just flat out wrong. I think what really speaks is the high price of this book given its slim size. That says more than anything!