Monib Sabet answers “Question. I've been trying to read Eckhart...”

Annie Kostyk asked this question about A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose:

Question. I've been trying to read Eckhart Tolle since he was first on Oprah. I can't read it. It's like I'm reading another language, but I don't know that language. Anyone else have that problem?

Monib Sabet I'm half way through the book and I really like the way he simply dissects the underlying elements of our thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
I had hard…moreI'm half way through the book and I really like the way he simply dissects the underlying elements of our thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
I had hard time buying into the connections he was trying to make to kind of justify that all religions have referred to the fact that ego is a dysfunction, I still don't find it a very relevant warmup (even if true), but the rest is great.
It's true that unless one is ready this whole book would be either a foreign language or restating the obvious!
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