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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
5.0
Well, I have been caught up in the whirlwind of excitement around this book. A part of me wants to put down the book to sort of dissociate myself from the mainstream hullabaloo, but why should I do that when I really do love this book.
I think the last book that allowed me to understand how I might find peace and be happier (perks to gaining an understanding of the world) in a different or clearer way was Erich Schiffman's book on yoga and before that Lao Tzu.
The author comes across as someone who really has accessed something important. I have tried to dismiss the book and what it proposes, but I find myself returning to it.
I think it helps to have many teachers. Sometimes one teacher is able to explain some aspect of something in a way that immediately makes it clear while another teacher makes something else abundantly more clear.
I think the last book that allowed me to understand how I might find peace and be happier (perks to gaining an understanding of the world) in a different or clearer way was Erich Schiffman's book on yoga and before that Lao Tzu.
The author comes across as someone who really has accessed something important. I have tried to dismiss the book and what it proposes, but I find myself returning to it.
I think it helps to have many teachers. Sometimes one teacher is able to explain some aspect of something in a way that immediately makes it clear while another teacher makes something else abundantly more clear.
Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
4.0
Love Neruda's adoration of the sea and women. You can hear the stillness and the grand sadness of waves in every poem. Here is a bit from his poem 20:
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.