A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club)

Product Information

Spirituality isn’t a religion. That’s an important distinction that he covers in the book. Also, my previous comment covers the fact that what he’s preaching isn’t really anything new.

So your physical body, which is form, reveals itself as essentially formless when you go deeper into it. It becomes a doorway into inner space.”In the service of the Truth, religious teachings represent signposts or maps left behind by awakened humans to assist you in spiritual awakening, that is to say, in becoming free of identification with form.” Many poets and sages throughout the ages have observed that true happiness – I call it the joy of Being – is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things. Most people, in their restless search for something significant to happen to them, continuously miss the insignificant, which may not be insignificant at all. The philosopher Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, ‘For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…. the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance – little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.'”

Someone’s net worth doesn’t dictate the size of their ego. I’ve learned that your relationship with money/stuff is more important than the money/stuff itself. Through complete acceptance of the form of Now, you become internally aligned with space, which is the essence of Now. Through acceptance, you become spacious inside. Aligned with space instead of form: That brings true perspective and balance into your life.“ Okay so I had high expectations for this book. Normally I don't really go for Oprah selections but I heard so many great things about it plus I am totally into new agey type things, I thought it would be right up my alley. It has been said ‘God is love’ but that is not absolutely correct. God is the One Life in and beyond the countless forms of life. Love implies duality: lover and beloved, subject and object. So love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.” Paradoxically, what keeps the so-­called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work: The ego satisfaction is short-­lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.”The moment you become aware of the ego in yourself, that emerging awareness is who you are beyond ego, the deeper ‘I.’“ I listed my favorite passages.... in the right time and place they are gentle reminders of what is important to live well. There are three ways you can align your life with the power of the universe: acceptance, enjoyment and enthusiasm. And then there’s the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”