A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans

misleading. In normal everyday usage, “I” embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. This illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space and time but also into human nature, referred to as “an optical illusion of consciousne

The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you.

When you look at it or hold it and let it be without imposing a word or mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you.

This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness.

When you recognize the unconsciousness in you, that which makes the recognition possible is the arising consciousness, is awakening.