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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. Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. Whenever there is some silence around you — listen to it. Stillness Speaks 1st edition means just notice it. Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence. See that in the moment of noticing the Stillness Speaks 1st edition around you, you are not thinking. You are aware, but not thinking. When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning. Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach Stillness Speaks 1st edition stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Stillness Speaks 1st edition the oneness of yourself with all things is true love. Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself. You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness. Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. By dropping your inner resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance also takes you into that realm of inner peace that is stillness. Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes — you are still, you are at peace. Pay attention to the gap — the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of "something" becomes — just awareness. The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form. True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. Is stillness just the absence of noise and content? No, it is intelligence itself — the underlying consciousness out of which every form is born. And how could that be separate from who you are? The form that you think you are came out of that and is being sustained by it. It is the essence of all galaxies and blades of grass; of all flowers, trees, birds, and all other forms. Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really Stillness Speaks 1st edition thing, and it is not of this world. When you look at Stillness Speaks 1st edition tree or a human being in stillness, who is looking? Something Stillness Speaks 1st edition than the person. Consciousness is looking at its creation. In the Bible, it says that God created the world and saw that it was good. That is what you see when you look from stillness without thought. Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this Stillness Speaks 1st edition But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the Christ within, or your Buddha nature. Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind-made "little me" is Stillness Speaks 1st edition you know and runs your life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting inner peace cannot come into your life except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness. If you can recognize, even occasionally, the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts, if you can witness your own mental-emotional reactive patterns as they happen, then that dimension is already emerging in you as the awareness in which thoughts and emotions happen — the timeless inner space in which the content of your life unfolds. The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much. It wants to draw your attention in completely. The human mind, in its desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth. It says: this is how it is. You have to be larger Stillness Speaks 1st edition thought to realize that however you interpret "your life" or someone else's life or behavior, however you judge any situation, it is no more than a viewpoint, one of many possible perspectives. It is no more than a bundle of thoughts. But reality is one unified whole, Stillness Speaks 1st edition which all things are interwoven, where nothing exists in and by itself. Thinking fragments reality — it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a Stillness Speaks 1st edition aspect of the consciousness that you are. Wisdom is not a product of thought. The deep knowing that is wisdom arises through the simple act of Stillness Speaks 1st edition someone or something your full attention. Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself. It dissolves the barriers created by conceptual thought, and with this comes the recognition that nothing exists in and by itself. It joins the perceiver and the perceived in a unifying field of awareness. It is the healer of separation. Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now. Dogmas — religious, political, scientific — arise out of the erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or the truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of "I know. Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others. The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are. The mind exists in a state of "not enough" and so is always greedy for more. When you are identified with mind, you get bored and restless very easily. Boredom means the mind is hungry for more stimulus, more food for thought, and its hunger is not being satisfied. Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®

Tolle said he was depressed for much of his life until age 29 when he underwent an "inner transformation". He then spent several years wandering "in a state of deep bliss" before becoming a spiritual teacher. He moved to VancouverBritish Columbia in [6] and currently divides his time between Canada and California. His parents fought and eventually separated, and he felt alienated from a hostile school environment. He later stated that pain "was in the energy field of the country". Tolle has said he responded "very deeply" to those books. At the age of 19, he moved to England and for three years taught German and Spanish at a London school for language studies. Stillness Speaks 1st edition his early twenties, he decided to pursue his search by studying philosophy, psychology, and literature, and enrolled at the University of London. One night inat the age of 29, after having suffered from long periods of depressionTolle says he experienced an "inner transformation". What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! It dissolved. The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or " beingness ," just observing and watching. Tolle recalls going out for a walk in London the next morning, and finding that "everything was miraculous, deeply peaceful. Even the traffic. His family thought him "irresponsible, even insane. After this period, former Cambridge students and people he had met by chance began to ask Tolle about his beliefs. He began working as a counsellor and spiritual teacher. He relocated to Glastonburya major centre of alternative living. He said he and his friends personally delivered some copies of the book to bookstores in Vancouver and the surrounding area. He formed a company to sell products related to his teachings called Eckhart Teachings. In British contemporary artist Alexander de Cadenet interviewed Tolle about art and the spiritual dimension. Tolle commented on his interest in landscape photography and said "both art and nature can Stillness Speaks 1st edition as portals into the transcendent dimension, your essence identity. A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function Stillness Speaks 1st edition such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth The words are no more than signposts. He says that his book The Power of Now is "a restatement Stillness Speaks 1st edition our time of that one Stillness Speaks 1st edition spiritual Stillness Speaks 1st edition, the essence of all religions". Tolle writes that Stillness Speaks 1st edition most significant thing that can happen to a human being [is] the separation process of thinking and awareness" and that awareness is "the space in which thoughts exist". According to his official website, "at the core of Tolle's teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening consists in transcending our ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violent conflict endemic on our planet". In his book A New Earthhe describes a major aspect of the human dysfunction as "ego" or an "illusory sense of self" [40] based on unconscious identification with one's memories and thoughts, [41] and another major aspect he calls "pain-body" [5] or "an accumulation of old emotional pain". He often talks about the relevance of figures in intellectual or popular culture. Inan article in The New York Times referred to him as "the most popular spiritual author Stillness Speaks 1st edition the [United States]". The books have received a wide range of praise and criticism. One book reviewer characterized The Power of Now as "awash in spiritual mumbo-jumbo", [49] while another reviewer wrote, "Tolle's clear writing and the obvious depth of his experience and insight set it apart". Some critics characterize his books as unoriginal or derivative. A The New York Times article said he is "hardly the first writer to tap into the American longing for meaning and success". Others praise his re-working and synthesis of traditions. New Age writer William Bloom wrote that "Tolle is offering a very contemporary synthesis of Eastern spiritual teaching, which is normally so clothed in arcane language that it is incomprehensible", thereby providing "a valuable perspective on Western culture". Christian scholars have Stillness Speaks 1st edition opinions on the compatibility of Tolle's ideas with Christianity. James Beverley, professor of Christian Thought and Ethics at the evangelical Tyndale Seminary in Torontosays that Tolle's worldview "is at odds with central Christian convictions" and that "Tolle denies the core of Christianity by claiming there is no ultimate distinction between humans and God and Jesus". He notes that "one Stillness Speaks 1st edition the key elements in Tolle's teaching is that deep within the mind is absolute stillness in which one can experience 'the joy of Being'". In The Independent noted that "Tolle's theories are certainly seen by many as profoundly non-Christian, even though Tolle often quotes from the Bible," but that "Tolle does have fans in academic, even Christian, circles". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. German writer. Eckhart Teachings. The New York Times. Retrieved Archived from the original on December 26, The New York Times Times Topics. Retrieved March 24, The Power of Now ed. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. Hardcover advice. 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Expanding on his mantra— Get out of your head and into the moment —Eckhart Tolle offers this new book on living in the now. Here Tolle emphasizes the art of "inner stillness"--the place where thoughts, ego and attachments fall always and we are left only with what the moment has to offer: "When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When Stillness Speaks 1st edition lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Like his previous bestselling book The Power of NowTolle uses brief entries and numerous white spaces to give readers easy in-and-out access into enticing spiritual insights that expound on inner stillness, such as learning the difference between surrender and resignation, overcoming the fear death, and how to end suffering. In fact, this is designed to be an ongoing conversation. Pick it up any time or any place, but be sure to allow for plenty of breaks for serious contemplation. Even as you occasionally abandon the book, don't abandon the teachings, Stillness Speaks 1st edition Tolle. Embracing and practicing inner stillness is no longer a luxury, he writes, "but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically things are getting worse and bett! But they may appreciate the refresher course --revisiting familiar concepts in a slightly different package. Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and graduated from the University of London. When not traveling and lecturing, he lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Convert currency. Add to Basket. Book Description New World Library, Condition: new. Seller Inventory More information about this seller Contact this seller. Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Stillness Speaks. Seller Inventory BBS Book Description Condition: new. Dust Jacket Condition: new. Language: English. Brand new Book. New York Times bestselling author Eckhart Tolle -- Learn the transformative power of living in the nowAttaining Eckhart Tolle's state of presence: In Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks 1st edition the fundamental elements of his teaching, addressing the needs of the modern seeker by drawing from all spiritual traditions. At the core of the book is what the author calls "the state of Stillness Speaks 1st edition a living in the 'now' that is both intensely inspirational and practical. The power of now: When the pressures of future and past thinking disappear, fear and frustration also vanish, conquered by the moment. Stillness Speaks takes the form of individual entries, organized into 10 topic clusters that range from "Beyond the Thinking Mind" to "Suffering and the Stillness Speaks 1st edition of Suffering. Seller Inventory AAC Seller Inventory BTE Book Description New World Library. Brand New VCF. Brand New!. Seller Inventory X. Book Description Condition: New. Items related to Stillness Speaks. Tolle, Eckhart. Publisher: New World Library This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. View all copies of this ISBN edition:. Review : Expanding on his mantra— Stillness Speaks 1st edition out of your head and into the moment — Eckhart Tolle offers this new book on living in the now. Buy New Learn more about this copy. Customers who bought this item also bought. Seller Image. Stillness Speaks Tolle, Eckhart. Published by New World Library New Hardcover Quantity Available: Seller Rating:. New Hardcover Quantity Available: 4. Stock Image. New Quantity Available: 1. Stillness Speaks Hardback Eckhart Tolle. Book Depository hard to find London, United Kingdom. Published by New World Library. New Quantity Available: New Quantity Available: 2. Qwestbooks Philadelphia, PA, U. Bookhouse Philadelphia, PA, U. There are more copies of this book View all search results for this book.