Stillness speaks, Eckhart Tolle
February 25, 2009Inner Teaching 2 Comments »
If stillness could speak, it would be quiet. Stillness has nothing to say. This is what Eckhart Tolle tries to explain with this book. The words and pronouncements in Stillness Speaks only function as signs to a place in your own consciousness, which you can only describe as a formless inner silence. Stillness Speaks is a rather typical book by Eckhart Tolle, however it does differ from his other books like A New Earth and the power of now. With clear writings and without any doubt wise pronouncements, he tries to explain the wisdom of living the inner Life in harmony with the inner stillness. He is doing this by short paragraphs and powerful proverbs. If you would buy Stillness Speaks, without a doubt you buy a piece of art. It is one of my own personal favorite ‘easy to read’ books on my book-shelf.
In the first few sentences of ‘Stillness Speaks’ Eckhart Tolle defines the spirit throughout the book:
“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.”
Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
The books of Eckhart Tolle are one by one sources of wisdom on our way to a new earth. He is one of my favorite authors, especially because he explains his teaching with easy to read material, and a unique presentation of a renewed philosophy in our modern culture.
Chapters from ‘Stillness speaks’:
- Silence & Stillness
- Beyond the thinking mind
- The Egoic Self
- The Now
- Who You Truly Are
- Acceptance & Surrender
- Nature
- Relationships
- Death & the Eternal (my favorite chapter)
- Suffering & the End of Suffering
If you start to discover who you really are, you start to experience a living sense peace. You could call it joy, because joy is a radiant living peace. It is the joy of knowing your Self as the essence of life, even before life ever expressed itself through form. This is the joy of Being – being who you really are behind form!
Posted on April 26th, 2009 at 10:52 am
How do you tell the difference between the “peace” or stillness of those checking out of the real world and the peace Christ talked about?
Posted on April 26th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I reread The Power of Now many times and always understand it more deeply each time but this difference can be very subtle, real peace and false peace because of the tricky way the ego mind works