ECKHART TOLLE
A NEW EARTH
Awakening to
Your Life's Purpose
CONTENTS
Chapter One
The Flowering of Human Consciousness – 6
Evocation..................................................................................................6
The Purpose of This Book........................................................................8
Our Inherited Dysfunction........................................................................10
The Arising New consciousness..............................................................12
Spirituality and Religion..........................................................................14
The Urgency of Transformation...............................................................16
A New Heaven and a new Earth...............................................................18
Chapter Two
Ego: The Current State of Humanity – 19
The Illusory Self......................................................................................20
The Voice in the Head.............................................................................22
Content and Structure of the Ego.............................................................24
Identification with Things........................................................................25
The Lost Ring...........................................................................................26
The Illusion of Ownership........................................................................29
Wanting: The Need for More....................................................................31
Identification with the Body.....................................................................33
Feeling the Inner Body.............................................................................34
Forgetfulness of Being.............................................................................35
From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight...............................................36
The Peace that Passes All Understanding.......................................