egocentric

I recently listened to the first three chapters of Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. I tried to read the Power of Now, and just could not get into it. But listening to a similar narrative is a whole new experience and I intend to keep it up. Not being a truly spiritual person, I still find myself relating and embracing.

Quickly bringing you up to speed--the premise is that we as humans have not realized our purpose, and we need to transcend our current state to bring about a "new earth". It covers teachings from all religions and demonstrates that our historical prophets and spiritual leaders (think Jesus, Buddha, all knew what needed to happen, but through years of misinterpretation we have gone farther and farther (or is it further and further?) from the truth. 

Truth is love. Truth is happiness. Truth is inside you once the ego is gone. The ego is gone only with acceptance and openness. The first step to silencing the ego is recognizing it's the ego at work. How simple. But how hard to break from pre-conditioned patterns. 

That ego is a frustrating little bastard.