'Stillness Speaks' by Eckhart Tolle reminds you that in order to remain in touch with who you really are you must consciously remain in touch with
your inner stillness. In order to do this you are reminded to 'Get out of your head and into the moment.'

Wonderful spiritual insights and practical ways to embrace the teachings by bringing the practice of inner stillness into your everyday life.

This book reinforces and deepens the understanding found in his previous book 'The Power of Now.'

Great for effectively overcoming fear and ending suffering in order to experience peace & joy.

Most recommended and totally awesome!

Better together with

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)

This is not a book for self help.You have to know already how to to care for your own well being,and be fearless enough to challenge your own ideas.I recommended this book to a friend,and she interpreted it very differently,and got very afraid.
Personally,I am glad the author wrote it,it re-affirms certain hunches I have been feeling in my own life's directions.No answers in this book,just how to open yourself to being your own teacher.It is very respectful to the reader,gentle and patient writing.

Good addition to Tolle's works. Even though I have read The Power of Now and A New Earth I absolutely enjoyed this book. If you need to refresh your self with his teachings or need a little Zen this book will do it. You can open it to any page and bring Peace and Stillness back into your life!

If you have ever read other books by Mr. Tolle or are just starting out - this is a wonderful little book. You can pick it up and open it any where and have a quick read - or start from beginning and work your way through. I leave it up to you to decide if the words in the book ring true for you - they certainly do for me.

After reading "A New Earth", I wanted more and found what I was looking for in this small book. Short passages give just enough to consider without leading you further than you might be ready to go. I find something new each time I pick it up. It is certainly refreshing.

I found this book to be very insightful. It's written very clearly, and cuts right through challenging thoughts. It's 'paragraph' layout makes it easy to read, and fitting for the kind of book it is. I'd recommend it to anyone with an open mind seeking Truth.

Stillness spaeks only when one is concentrating on it. It is an interesting book, helps to relax. Short reading. Put somewhere where you can pick up once a awhile and read a couple of pages.

From the author of "The Power of Now," Eckhart Tolle offers us a gem of quietude that in and of itself can allow a radiant shift in consciousness. Once again, he encourages to get out of our minds and into the heart to realize harmony and peace. This is a shift out of time into timelessness and in this book, we do so in a manner that is similar to the ancient sutras of India. Instead of reading this book from cover to cover, enjoy a short section each day. You soon will begin discovering that Stillness Speaks.

Katie Davis, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment

For someone whose mind rattles on and on most of the time, moving to the present moment and staying there is not as easy as Tolle suggests. My conflict seems to be that it's the mind that reads these little statements. Somehow those little snippets need to get transferred to my consciousness. So I use these short paragraphs as a "settling down" exercise before sitting quietly. Tolle's books have transformed my life for the better. I am learning to stay present and to enjoy every moment.

Tolle's small, concise book, is perfect for the individual who doesn't want to read "The Power of Now"!

This little book contains the essence, distilled down to a few sentences, or short paragraphs, that tell you all you need, to get you on your way towards spiritual awareness.

I leave it next to my bed stand, as a convenient reminder, to actually live what Tolle is sharing, from his own experiences.

A wonderful way to take some of Eckhart Tolle's life changing words with you. His book A New Earth was life changing for me and this is just a wonderful addition to my library, a little book packed with tons od inspiration.

Extraordinary work.
Also recommend Power of Now.
Tolle has the extraordinary gift to describe the infinite in words.
I read Power of Now first and it offers simple yet profound methods - "portals" into enlightenment.
So Stillness is a simplified, powerful statement of the wisdom of Power of Now.
It relates to our essential Being. So obvious it is overlooked by almost everyone.
I recommend Power of Now first. "Beyond the outward form of beauty there is an inner depth, a holy essence" and Stillness Speaks as a reminder and follow up.
The audio CDs are also useful as reminders and reinforcement to recognizing the truth, and pathway to durable inner peace.
Tolle's method essentially involves bringing to light the fog of thought, and thereby releasing one to know. Stillness Speaks - first sutra, second chapter "Beyond the Thinking Mind, The human condition: lost in thought.; Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past."
These books can liberate one from this tyranny, opening up the majesty, peace and joy of life, even in the present day with all the cares of the world.

This book is a good follow-up book to any of Eckhart Tolle's other books. It can be picked up and read, and reread anytime. A must for daily practice.

Very Inspiring, great bedside companion, or early morning read. "Stillness" is the companion of "The Power of Now" in small bites.

If you haven't read The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, start there. But then? Pick up Stillness Speaks. Have it with you. Keep it near. It is the boiled down essence. The core of the teachings. Tiny little pieces of enormous wisdom.

If you have read The Power of Now or A New Earth, this book does not say anything new. What it does do, though, is help lull your mind into a wonderful state of silence as you read. It makes for a weak book (for the thinking mind), but an amazing reading experience.

This was a gift for a friend who wrote back to me and told me how delighted she was with the choice I made....she recommends this CD set highly!

This books is excellent and inspiring. It's different from the Power of Now or A New Earth in that it's not so much a cohesive work with a reasoned argument but more of a collection of short insights and aphorisms. It's the kind of book you can just pick up and open at any page at any moment - and whatever you read, it's guaranteed to give you wisdom and a glimmer of enlightenment, since all of the words in it come from the spiritual ground of all reality. Eckhart is a conduit from that spiritual source and everything in this book is pervaded with it. Eckhart's work has led me to several other excellent books which are recommended on his website, such as De Mello's and most of all The Fall by Steve Taylor The Fall: The Evidence for a Golden Age, 6,000 years of Insanity and the Dawning of a New Era

I am n ot that much into self-help and inspirational type books, but this one touches a chord. In the introduction, Tolle says if you read it looking for food for thought you will be disappointed, possibly because he is trying to get us out of our heads, away from thinking and into knowing. But I am finding much to think about here; I read a couple of passages and close the book and let what I just read soak in.

I got into Tolle because of a recommendation from a therapist that I'd approached for help in dealing with my chronic tinnitus, which I've had for years and perceive as getting louder. I know it is not going away, but I wanted help to learn how not to react to it, not let it annoy me so much. Dr. Tolle has already helped me to understand that acceptance of things that can't change is so much more liberating than resistance, and I have already begun to think of the sounds in my head as an opportunity to be more aware of the present.

As CEO Coach, Poet and author of a leadership book that helps leaders unleash their genis, the genius of teams and the genius of corporations, I have found the teachings of this book to be the most profound I have ever read. If you can understand this book, it will change your life. Stillness Speaks can lead you to the deepest happiness you can achieve in human form. Eckhart Tolle is the most profound thinker of our time. I recomend this book to my CEO's and everyone I know. Read this book over and over until you get it. Paul David Walker Unleashing Genius: Leading Yourself, Teams and Corporations

When I saw this book for the first time, I was drawn to it and purchased it immediately. I got home and read it from cover to cover. From that moment on it has been my constant companion as the book, inspiration cards and audio book versions. Stillness Speaks has brought stillness to my noisy mind. It has taught me the that I am not my noisy mind, I am consciousness. It is a small book that is easy to read again and again that has become and will always be an important part of my life.

Stillness Speaks

It is understandable to see 75 readers ranked this book 5 stars, while 27 ranked 1 star. The gap lies in expectation. After one read the book "The Power of Now," one may expect "Stillness Speaks" to be written in the same manner. It is very different in format, yet its effect can be as profound. I found the best way to enjoy this book is to listen to the audio book in the car. Do this whenever you feel like and as often as you wish, it may transform your day and life.

Staying in the "Now" is essential for spirituality. Great for daily maintenance of good spiritual growth

I like "The Power of Now" better but Eckhart Tolle uses some very interesting ways to communicate some important messages to the reader in this book. It is refreshing in that way. I recently felt a little overwhelmed with books regarding mindful living and the present moment and have began to search beyond that. I found an excellent book called "The Ever-Transceinding Spirit" by Toru Sato. It is an enlightening book for those of us who are not completely in the present moment all of the time but are on our way to learning how to get to a stage of life where we are able to stay close to this state for extended periods of time. I would recommend it to everyone seeking further development in this area of life.

"Stillness Speaks" is a surprisingly good follow up to "The Power of Now". The message of being present and liberating oneself from the imprisonment of thought is largely the same, but the format of this book is more compact and accessible and also places Tolle's message in more specific contexts.

In "Stillness Speaks", Eckhart Tolle replaces the Q&A format found in "The Power of Now" with a direct and pithy narrative style modeled on Sutras. The first chapter essentially provides the book's entire message while subsequent ones place that message in more specific contexts such as how to bring stillness, awareness, and compassion to work or relationships.

This book, like its predecessor contains much truth. It is the kind of truth that you don't really have to think about because either you'll recognize it intuitively or you won't. While I found both "Stillness Speaks" and "The Power of Now" to be useful, powerful books, I was also a little put off by the author's subtle tone of righteous arrogance. A small but significant amount of the "energy" in each book is directed toward establishing Tolle's credentials as a guru. This, along with the intense sales and marketing found on his home page, seems wasteful, contradictory, and unnecessary.

Despite, these misgivings, I highly recommend this book for its invaluable teachings. The message has always bee here regardless of who continues to bring it or how it arrives. I understand that Tolle's next book is about bringing consciousness to one's flatulent behavior and that its title will be "Stillness Squeaks".

I first took this book in by listening to a CD of it. Having struggled some with his Book of Now, I was especially surprised. For me this book has been fabulously helpful and healing. Just incredible. And I am NOT prone to being effusive. This book dovetails nicely with mindfulness meditation, cognitive psychology, and Buddhist studies, and more. Read this book slowly. Put it down often. Better yet, listen to the CD version. Not his others CD or lectures on CD. Just this one. However, I have noticed that not everyone is receptive to this version of his work.

This books will take you back to stillness and peace any moment you pick it up and read a few lines. I find this as a very useful book to read just before starting my evening meditation and before going to bed. After coming home from work, when the momentum of the mind is still flowing, I pick up this book and the mind sees the wisdom and slow down and stops. Meditation is just natural and effortless after that.

In the introduction to the book Echart tells us "If you are looking for food for thought, you won't find it here". So if you are looking for entertainment, a new theory, or to escape from boredom this book is not for you. This book is only for a bit more serious people who just want to go back to stillness and enjoy the bliss of being, not being this or that, but just being. This book has several chapters like the egoic self, nature etc. I also bought the audio CD along with the book. After listening to the audio several times, his words have become a kind of inner guide inside my head.

I'm a fan of Tolle - I consider his previous book a masterpiece. In my humble opinion, It's the best rendering of unitary/enlightened/samadhi consciousness humanity could ever hope for.

When I started reading this book I became irritated at first. Again with the repetitions? Wasn't the theory explained already? Until I let myself go and tried to accept what Tolle is trying to do.

THIS IS NOT A BOOK IN THE ORDINARY SENSE!!! Tolle is explicitly stating the reader should spend more time experiencing the content than reading (careful: thinking is not experiencing). I was wrong to dismiss this instruction and when I did figure it out I was BLOWN AWAY.

I can't believe Tolle has actually managed to top himself. While "The Power of Now" is where you should start, this book is a perfect follow-up. A profound METHOD (not really a BOOK in the classic sense) to stir the profound and by all accounts EXTREMELY COOL form of existence you could be having, hidden from you by experiencing existence as a continuous stream of thought and by the involuntary and habitual identification with that stream ("thought-identification"). Although difficult to do in everyday life, the basic truth in the thought dis-identification premise is easy to verify in meditation: even as a beginner, your thoughts go away for all of 2 seconds yet you are still you. So you are in fact THE AWARENESS THAT EXPERIENCES THOUGHT. Get it?

So this "book" goes over from theory and touches the actual practice. But meditation still seems to be the effective way for calming down, combined with the lifestyle additions that support it by reducing stress in our nervous system: trigger point therapy followed by a steady yoga practice (trigger points are best explained in "The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" - you wouldn't believe the amount of pain in your body of which you are not aware! unlikely you are brave enough to work it out by yourself, so give the book to a massage therapist!), and a diet as free of stimulatnts as possible: nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, garlic, aerated drinks etc.

Although most yoga teachers are unaware of it, the deepest yogic meditative state of Samadhi meditation - letting go of thoughts WITHOUT concetrating on an object as in "ordinary" yogic meditation - can be learned directly, without 20+ years of yoga practice. It's easy to learn, but you need to practice for a few months for the full effect. Example: www.ssy.org (mostly India-based org, courses in English are conducted in Pune, near Bombay).

(note: Samadhi consciousness, or the consciousness component in enlightenment, is the result of the continuous practice of Samadhi meditation)

I can't argue with any individual section of the book. It's all right on the money, and 100% true. However, the problem I have with the book, is that while Eckhart explains why we should quiet our minds, he doesn't really explain the best ways we can apply this knowledge into the real world, here in the 21st century.

This book is written, based on the same exact principles that made the author famous. His "The Power of Now" books, which were fantastic. This book offers pretty much nothing new, but a condensed version of his other books. However, this book lacks the "How to" that his other books do. I wouldn't mind seeing a few chapters on how we can fit this sort of thinking into our real world lives. How we can quiet our minds in certain situations, with examples. The information in the book is solid, but I know personally, and from speaking to others, we're thirsting for more upon completion. Almost as if we got the message, but have no clue how to apply it properly to our lives.

I love this book. It has helped to heal and to strengthen my spirit. Among the most valuable books I have ever read. I read a little bit almost every day and it helps bring me to a calmer more peaceful place. I feel happier, I feel closer to those around me, and I feel that my life has become a much more open and beautiful thing since I have been reading the book. I recommend it to anyone.

I thought Stillness Speaks is a rehash of "The Power of Now" in one sense, but also a distilled version of "The Power of Now". The words Mr. Tolle says are meant to be experienced though it is the same old philosophy as "The Power of Now". That is why this book has lots of white spaces. That is why it is sectioned out with all the small paragraphs. If a book full of words is the one you feel you can get as much money back as you can, this is not the book for you because you are focusing too much on gaining knowledge. You want to adopt the words even before you can pause to see whether it makes sense to you. Your mind wants to be occupied with all the words so you cannot stop and to reflect.

This is a book you are not supposed to rush it through and read all of it in one day (though you can surely speed read it and be done in 2 hours because it is thin without too many words). It is supposed to be a book you read only one chapter a day to pause and to reflect slowly. You feel the words and you taste the words. You experience what he said without the noise that is always talking and judging. Then, you experience love and peace. Then, you are awakened from that voice in your head that is always talking and judging (egoic mind).

Also, when you are reading this book, you are supposed to take Mr. Tolle out of the picture as an identity (meaning the form of a spiritual teacher - does not matter whether you respect him or not). Mr. Tolle's words are just a gateway to our spiritual awareness to be in the presence and stillness. The words are meant to inspire and help us return to our authentic self (inner peace) - which exists in the presence. When we get into the mental position of, "What was he thinking when he was writing the book?" or judging "isn't it just a rehash of The Power of Now", you have already missed the point of the book - which is to stay presence and feel the words to achieve stillness. If you already have the book, why not read it with an open heart rather than complaining the white spaces/thin book? You already have it in your hands. Why can't you read it with gratitude and see what the words have to offer you?

Stillness Speaks is, by design, a shorter and smaller book than the author's previous one "The Power of Now". It's as if to demonstrate visually that it's not about "reading more" and "learning more" that brings one to a place of peace. In fact, Tolle often argues for the opposite, the quieting and stilling of the noisy mind, as the way to allow a greater peace and presence to appear.

The author's assumption is that this "presence/stillness/force" is benign and intelligent and good. Some people with traditional views may struggle with the ambiguity of exactly who or what this source of wisdom and peace is, since it's only loosely defined.

To get the most out of this book, the reader may need to suspend some long held beliefs about the world and their part in it, and see things from a new perspective that's free from a sense of self and ego. That's a major shift for many of us. So this is not light reading. To be taken seriously, it requires an examination of your belief system and that's always a bit scary and challenging. But that's often where growth occurs.

I would recommend this book for anyone who's goal is not so much success as it is peace of mind and congruity of life.