I know you probably already know about this, but in case you ignored the information, have felt too busy to follow up or have just returned from a Space Shuttle flight, Oprah is hosting a wonderful event with Eckhart Tolle, a spiritual teacher whom I respect and have learned from for years.

They are having a ten week course live on the Internet via webcast each Monday at 8 pm Central. Go to Oprah.com to sign up. We are already in week 4, but the series is so good, so life changing, so incredible, I hope you'll sign up even if you missed the first four. All prior classes are posted on the Internet so you can catch up at your leisure. They also have workbooks and exercises posted to help you through the material.

This course is based on his newest book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. And it is his best, most readable yet. I haven't been this excited, challenged and moved by a book in years. So grab a copy and read it now!

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Study Group for Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. I am considering creating a study group for those of you who want to practice and learn more about the techniques and ideas in this book. I'm considering meeting weekly for one hour at a cost of $10 per session. The price will be lower if enough sign up for the group. This will most likely start after the 10 week series that Oprah is producing. Would you be interested? Drop me an email if so at maf@lifeunfolds.com.

Eckhart Tolle, in his book, A New Earth, talks about your story and how identifying with it causes so much suffering. So what does this really mean? Here are some real life examples of life stories: I met someone at a party. In the half hour I talked with her, a plain woman in her sixties, I found out that she had lost her trust fund at the age of 19 and couldn't go to college. Apparently, her relatives took/lost it and she was left with nothing. The way she talked about it, with such anger and blame and wrath, it sounded as if it had happened last week, not over 40 years ago. She was very attached to her story that she "should" have kept her trust fund and that she was a victim. She cited that the reason she was not well-educated and successful (making low money) was because of this event. Remember, she is telling this story with a lot of emotion to a relative stranger, me.

"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something." -- Andrew Carnegie

This is a powerful, albeit obvious, statement about the human condition.

First, it says that our desires, our dreams, our wants are powerful motivators. They spur us to get up out of our chairs and move. As a child, motivation came easily and naturally. We were motivated to crawl, to walk, to communicate. Motivation is the difference between something being difficult to achieve and being easy to achieve. The more motivated you are, the easier it is to take action. Even dull or difficult jobs take on an excitement and become easier when we are powerfully motivated. In fact, it is more difficult to not take action when motivated. I have dieted many times. When I was powerfully motivated, the weight seemed to just fall away by itself. Eating healthfully was easy. Exercising was easy. But when I just decided (in my head) to lose weight, every choice was difficult, with lots of backsliding and little success. The only real difference was motivation. It was certainly not knowledge, will-power or planning

One of my desires is to stay in the flow as much as possible. To have ease in my life and have things just flow, without major obstacles, and stops. Everything can be thought of as a flow of energy. Money is a flow of energy. Love is a flow of energy. Creativity and creative endeavors are flows of energy. These flows can be encouraged or discouraged by our emotions, thoughts and actions. Let's look for just a moment on how to encourage the flow, to strengthen or amp up the flow so that abundance can be ours right now.

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment" -- Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?" -- Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

"Any negative emotion that is not fully faced and seen for what it is in the moment it arises does not completely dissolve. It leaves behind a remnant of pain." --Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

"....with each person who awakens, the momentum in the collective conciousness grows, and it becomes easier for others. If you don't know what awakening means, read on. Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of the word. A glimpse is enough to initiate the awakening process, which is irreversible." -- Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists." -- Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

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