Honestly folks, I am not big on self-help books, and despite all my reading around the Beats, Beatniks, Bohemians and other alternative cultures of the last two centuries, I am not that easily able to swallow the direct message of tuning in, turning on and dropping out; I observe this as history, but I generally don't participate.

Tolle has something though. If you get this book and you find it initially woolly, touchy-feely, obscure, superficial or trite - well, you may soon realize it's your ego trying its best to spit out the medicine it is being forced to imbibe.

Tolle will soon be landing rabbit punches to your ego, delivering them in velvet gloves. Your ego will probably not get up after the count but your essential self will happily throw in the towel as far as our idiotically dog-eat-dog world is concerned, step out of the arena we have forced ourselves to maul in, and go and do something much, much more enlightened instead. ( )

http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2009/... ( )

Reynal & Hitchcock(1939)

Slow to start but incredible insights on the ego, who we truly are. ( )

Builds on The Power of Now ( )