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A New Earth With Oprah Winfrey
Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 07:29PM
There is still time to join in on the fun of Oprah's worldwide, interactive Web event, a 10-week course with Oprah Winfrey and author Eckhart Tolle, based on his now-BEST-SELLING book:
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
I have been reading, and I've done the Chapter 1 workbook exercises (see Oprah.com), but I couldn't tell you much more, yet, than my answer to the first question and my two favorite quotes from the first chapter:
1. Why did you decide to read this book?
Because I am open to the idea of personal transformation, and making the world a better place. I also admire Oprah Winfrey, even though I don't watch the show. (I don't watch much TV -- I generally love her book group selections, though!) Oprah is a very successful role model and she seems to be a genuinely good person (i.e. opening the school for girls in Africa, just one example). If she says this is so powerful, I want to know what it's all about!
Another exercise each week is to pick two favorite quotes from the chapter. Oprah shares hers on the website, and there is a place online to keep track of your favorites, in your workbook. Mine are different from Oprah's, but I'm guessing that's okay:
"Driven by greed, ignorant of their connectedness to the whole, humans persist in behavior that, if continued unchecked, can only result in their own destruction." (page 11)
"What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought -- or the emotion or sense perception -- happens."
(page 22)
This worldwide interactive Web event is very exciting, and once you sign up for the class (it's FREE), you receive emails and reminders, gentle guidance on making your way through the book, one chapter at a time. It is dense reading, but in this format, reading with a community and having the author and Oprah Winfrey guiding discussion, I'm looking forward to it -- a new adventure in reading a book, if nothing else.
If you are interested, be sure to go get your copy of the book on Monday, sign up on Oprah.com and spend some time Monday on Chapter 1: The Flowering of Human Consciousness.
I have been reading, and I've done the Chapter 1 workbook exercises (see Oprah.com), but I couldn't tell you much more, yet, than my answer to the first question and my two favorite quotes from the first chapter:
1. Why did you decide to read this book?
Because I am open to the idea of personal transformation, and making the world a better place. I also admire Oprah Winfrey, even though I don't watch the show. (I don't watch much TV -- I generally love her book group selections, though!) Oprah is a very successful role model and she seems to be a genuinely good person (i.e. opening the school for girls in Africa, just one example). If she says this is so powerful, I want to know what it's all about!
Another exercise each week is to pick two favorite quotes from the chapter. Oprah shares hers on the website, and there is a place online to keep track of your favorites, in your workbook. Mine are different from Oprah's, but I'm guessing that's okay:
"Driven by greed, ignorant of their connectedness to the whole, humans persist in behavior that, if continued unchecked, can only result in their own destruction." (page 11)
"What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought -- or the emotion or sense perception -- happens."
(page 22)
This worldwide interactive Web event is very exciting, and once you sign up for the class (it's FREE), you receive emails and reminders, gentle guidance on making your way through the book, one chapter at a time. It is dense reading, but in this format, reading with a community and having the author and Oprah Winfrey guiding discussion, I'm looking forward to it -- a new adventure in reading a book, if nothing else.
If you are interested, be sure to go get your copy of the book on Monday, sign up on Oprah.com and spend some time Monday on Chapter 1: The Flowering of Human Consciousness.
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