A New Earth: Create a Better Life

It would be easy to belittle this book, with its sixties feel and its you-can-do-it attitude and its mystical all-religions-are-one philosophy. It is easy to be cynical in the face of such idealism. Let's hope Tolle doesn't disappoint us later with tell-all revelations.

I found much to like in this book, if one can overlook its flaws. Tolle is just a person, not a prophet, for one. I'd like to take the good parts from this book, just like I take from Socrates, not as if he is Moses carrying the Ten Commandments.

And here is what I took away: Ego is killing our world. We must step back and look at the world from a bigger perspective. We must set aside our thoughts of taking everything we can get as what is due to us. We must live in the now, not in the anxiety-filled world of what has already happened or the fear-filled world of what might happen.