Stillness Speaks | Eckhart Tolle | A Great Book with Intuitively Recognizable Truths

Stillness Speaks | Eckhart Tolle | Stunningly clear and helpful for some of us

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Stillness Speaks

	Stillness Speaks Eckhart Tolle New World Library, 2003 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 146 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Great Book with Intuitively Recognizable Truths

"Stillness Speaks" is a surprisingly good follow up to "The Power of Now". The message of being present and liberating oneself from the imprisonment of thought is largely the same, but the format of this book is more compact and accessible and also places Tolle's message in more specific contexts.

In "Stillness Speaks", Eckhart Tolle replaces the Q&A format found in "The Power of Now" with a direct and pithy narrative style modeled on Sutras. The first chapter essentially provides the book's entire message while subsequent ones place that message in more specific contexts such as how to bring stillness, awareness, and compassion to work or relationships.

This book, like its predecessor contains much truth. It is the kind of truth that you don't really have to think about because either you'll recognize it intuitively or you won't. While I found both "Stillness Speaks" and "The Power of Now" to be useful, powerful books, I was also a little put off by the author's subtle tone of righteous arrogance. A small but significant amount of the "energy" in each book is directed toward establishing Tolle's credentials as a guru. This, along with the intense sales and marketing found on his home page, seems wasteful, contradictory, and unnecessary.

Despite, these misgivings, I highly recommend this book for its invaluable teachings. The message has always bee here regardless of who continues to bring it or how it arrives. I understand that Tolle's next book is about bringing consciousness to one's flatulent behavior and that its title will be "Stillness Squeaks".

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Stunningly clear and helpful for some of us

I first took this book in by listening to a CD of it. Having struggled some with his Book of Now, I was especially surprised. For me this book has been fabulously helpful and healing. Just incredible. And I am NOT prone to being effusive. This book dovetails nicely with mindfulness meditation, cognitive psychology, and Buddhist studies, and more. Read this book slowly. Put it down often. Better yet, listen to the CD version. Not his others CD or lectures on CD. Just this one. However, I have noticed that not everyone is receptive to this version of his work.

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Powerful guidance from the higher self

I find the audio version of this book amazing. The depth of wisdom and guidance is brillant and beautiful.

A great guide to pointing you back to your original nature.

Stillness Speaks

The second most powerful book I have read in the last 30 years. Everyone needs to read this book if they want to understand how to live life in a state of peace and joy.

Good not great

I like "The Power of Now" better but Eckhart Tolle uses some very interesting ways to communicate some important messages to the reader in this book. It is refreshing in that way. I recently felt a little overwhelmed with books regarding mindful living and the present moment and have began to search beyond that. I found an excellent book called "The Ever-Transceinding Spirit" by Toru Sato. It is an enlightening book for those of us who are not completely in the present moment all of the time but are on our way to learning how to get to a stage of life where we are able to stay close to this state for extended periods of time. I would recommend it to everyone seeking further development in this area of life.

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