A New Earth – does it have to be that hard?
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle calls for what the title suggests – a new earth. He is calling for a spiritual transformation that will enable people to rise above their ego, and operate out of a different higher state of being.
The book, A Life Worth Living and A New Earth share a common end – to transform the world. I though don’t think the answer is as complex as what Tolle calls for in A New Earth. I don’t think people need to delve in and understand the inner workings of their being, to understand their ego. A Life Worth Living looks deeper and asks the question, “What is holding all those things, those behaviors, the ego in place in the first place?” If you look, the answer is what it always is – the absence of choice.
Yes, we always have choice. Choice is all there is; yet in the perception of most people, choice simply means choosing between the lesser of two evils. Choose between working at a job you hate OR living on the streets because you have no money. C’mon choose! In the wake of that choice, the ego stands strong.
So where do we find these choices that set us free? Simple. We invent them. Human beings wanted to write and they invented the pen. They wanted to fly and they invented the airplane. Want a new earth to live in, invent it! I realize that it may seem outrageously simple, but really how else are we going to end up with a new earth, a new way of life, a new experience of life other than to invent it. Inventing is how we ended up with the earth we now live in. In the end, Tolle’s A New Earth and A Life Worth Living aren’t that far apart – both call for thinking differently, and both call for a new possibility – a new earth.
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