Mindful Action and Personal Transformation
On page seven of Eckhart Tolle’s spiritual classic, A New Earth , he states that “this book is not interesting.” What a surprise for someone to write such words about his own book! But what does he really mean by this? Many times, when someone reads a philosophical or spiritual book they will say (if they don’t hate the book) something like “There are some very thought-provoking ideas here. Very interesting!” What this typically means is that they have considered the merits of the author’s views, considered strengths and weaknesses in the reasons given, maybe compared the ideas with other things they have read or thought, and maybe even sat around with friends kicking around various interpretations and ramifications in a very lively discussion. And then, though nobody actually says this, the attitude is “Well, that was stimulating. OK, what’s next?” and it’s off to next book or public speaking engagement and some more ideas to kick around...
