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Summary: In the Stillness
Review: Stillness Speaks is not a book about "teaching you" any particular answers or leading you down a spiritual path. This book is about reminding you of your own inner stillness and from there on what you receive from this book depends on what you find when you reconnect with that true inner self. It is therefore difficult to comment on the book itself as what you receive from it is totally dependent on what you find within.The first line of this book is well worth the investment. As a matter of fact, after you read the first line you may not go any further, as you will find that you are now on your own inner voyage to the inner stillness (which speaks only to you).
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Summary: Helps quiet the mind
Review: Stillness Speaks is a quiet book. It's small, filled with empty spaces and words that are succinct and point in a certain direction -- towards stillness and silence. Those who are looking for concepts and ideas to give them "MORE", or to fill up their minds, will not find it here. Many reviewers on this site sound annoyed and feel they didn't get something worth their money - that they read it quickly and felt nothing afterwards. If you're ready, this book will speak to you. When I first read "The Power of Now", my reaction was something like, "Yeah, yeah, we're supposed to be in the present moment. Now what?" I felt frustrated by the book. But when I read it several months later, it was a completely different experience. Stillness Speaks takes you into an even quieter place, if you let it and if you are ready.
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Summary: Terrible Writing
Review: When I read in this book a maxim that said "Let it Be, just let it be", I thought I was reading the lyrics of a Beatles song. The material seems rushed and pulled from various sources none of which seem that original. Old ideas packaged in a hardcover book make for a product that is designed to be sold to a reading public that should know better.Save your money!!!
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Summary: The feel of an Upanishad
Review: Eckhart Tolle's second book has been awaited for a while by those who found the wisdom and grace of the first to be an extraordinary experience. This book is smaller on content and perhaps more complex in profundity. The Power of Now operated at all levels; it was one of those rare books which could actually get people to begin a spiritual practice with some seriousness, while those already in the swim found it to be a valuable guide. Stillness Speaks tilts a bit towards the already serious spiritual practitioner. Not that a beginner would not profit from it but my guess is that people who have done their processes and transformed themselves are likely to extract the most from this tight little spiritual classic. Stillness Speaks has some of the feel of an Upanishad. A master discourses on important spiritual issues and you access the level you are capable of. When you come back to it, you find that the book has changed too, speaking to you at a depth you might not have suspected even existed - in you! Tolle is evolving towards an aphoristic style of communication; anything longer would tend to be false to the essence of being in the Now which is his difficult/simple message. It is a book that triggers rumination in you even more powerfully than The Power of Now. My personal favorite, something that set off a liberating snort of laughter, is the conclusion to Chapter Six -"Leave Life alone. Let it be." I feel that not learning from this book would be a blunder.
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Summary: Master reality and optimize the power of your mind
Review: This book has some excellent insights but is dangerous for those who are struggling to find meaning and success in their lives. Let's face it, all we have control over in life is the power of personal choice, and if the mind is as bad as Tolle states in his books, then why does he use the mind (in the form of writing) to communicate his message??!! I suggest you take a sensible path to making the most of life by reading books such as Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
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Summary: Absurd
Review: I have come across this book in a friends house, and since I have also read Mr Tolle's others works (and was not particular moved) I decided to give another chance and see if anything was different. NO it is not.
What does it means? It simply means that shalow messages are sent as if one could simply change ones being by reading books...any book. I am not a sceptical, in the sense that I do belive in a life more rewarding and real, specially in terms of SELF. We can develop a real and permanent SELF to live in the present, but it will not be done by any reading. So what does this book can do for you? If you are lucky, give yet another clue that there is a way, but this is not quite it yet...
My suggestion. Don't waist your money on that. Buy some of the Fourth Way titles. They are much more dense and practical (although it is still a book). Good luck in your journey!
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Summary: Excellent companion to "The Power of Now".
Review: I was stunned when I read some of the negative reader feedback Amazon customers submitted about this new book. I'll grant them that it might be best to have read "The Power of Now" as a prelude to "getting" the clearer, more distilled messages in "Stillness Speaks", but that does not diminish the impact of the book. "Stillness Speaks" is not wordy, obscure, or complicated. It is meant to be simple, and as the author often states, words are just signposts that awaken deeper truths that already exist within us. My opinion is not a prejudiced one. After reading his magnificent first book three times in a row, I'd been looking for another book that would help me to reinforce these new concepts for me. Quite frankly, I couldn't understand the reason Mr. Tolle wrote his rambling previous follow-up to TPON called "Practicing the Power of Now". However, when I picked up "Stillness Speaks" and browsed through it in a bookstore, I could not put it down. It now sits on my bedside table, where I can read a passage every morning. Like "The Power of Now", this book will lift your consciousness and change your life for the better . . . IF that is what you're looking for.
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Summary: A Shameful Addition
Review: This is the book that follows The Power of Now? The publisher must be kidding. What a shame. There is nothing here but a void. Darkness overshawdows this book and I as a reader was let down by the author's myopic views that lack real insight.
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Summary: The Power of Stillness
Review: Mr. Tolle once again utilizes a present-state awareness to draw the reader into a similar depth. It isn't so much what this book says, as how it says it. Many of the ideas expressed are more or less recaps of his, and other, teachings. But it is reflective of the meditative awareness produced by reading such works as A Course in Miracles, and hence its appeal extends far beyond most teachings. Along with The Power of Now, it should rank as one of the major spiritual classics of the century. There is a great power in stillness, lying deep and dormant within everyone. When the mind is stilled, it returns naturally to an awareness of its--and Life's--original state, unleashing all kinds of unimaginable effects. This state is accessible through the present moment, which is where this book focuses the reader.
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Summary: It Speaks... But What Does It Say??
Review: What does stillness say in this little book? It says plase buy me. I know that I am overpriced and everything in me has been said before, but buy me anyway because my publisher needs the money. I loved the Power of Now, but this book was a waste of time. You can read the book in one sitting and your life will not change, except you will be lighter in the wallet.
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