Reading ‘ A New Earth’ by Eckhart Tolle has been one of the most enlightening experiences I’ve had in ages.

Since time immemorial, the ego has governed our existence.

We have been conditioned to believe that our thoughts are who we are and rising above them would mean destruction of all that our limited thinking has created including war, religion and pseudo spiritual practices.

But history bears witness to the fact that the more rigid a school of thought becomes ( Stalin and the Soviet Union), the sooner it will crumble away and be reduced to nothingness.

Similarly, the more rigid mankind becomes with his views on religion, identification with the ego and other manifestations of the materialistic self, the more we are heading towards total destruction of the world as we know it.

How utterly rewarding it would be to be a silent but objective observer to that constant…