Don’t you love my heavy-handed symbolism with the globe lamp in the background? One of my most treasured possessions, actually ~ I’ve had that globe lamp since I was a little girl and I used to look at it often and wonder how my life would be.

Ok, so I watch the Oprah show from time to time and when I saw her promoting Eckhart Tolle’s new book, A New Earth, Awakening to your Life’s Purpose ~ I thought, "hmm... interesting, but I’ve already awakened" so I ignored their web class for the first 4 weeks.

Then last Monday, I was watching her show and she mentioned the web class again, as she always does because she thinks this is the most exciting thing she’s ever done in her life ~ really ~and now I know why! This time something compelled me to watch part of the first class. Then I asked Sean if he’d like to watch the live class later that night. We watched class #5 and then proceeded to spend every night of last week watching every other class in reverse order. Our coffee mornings, well most of our days have been filled with conversation over the ideas put forth in this book and the class. To say I’m a bit obsessed with this information is probably an understatement.

This isn’t about awakening solely to your life’s purpose in the way we think ~ "what will my life’s work be?" This is about awakening to your LIFE and the world around you.

It’s at this point that I will say no more. I now fully understand what it means to let people find their own way in this world through whatever means resonate with you most whether it be religion, spirituality, both or whatever else makes your heart sing. I will say that with all the conscious information I’ve been devouring over the last 10 years, nothing has tied everything together for me, in the way that Eckhart’s interpretation has. (And I also have to say that I flipped through his first book "the power of now" 5 years ago and it didn’t speak to me at all) Once again, it’s not really new information, but his interpretation, for me, has been the key. I really feel "awake" in a way that I never have before. And the proof is in the pudding, because since as far as I can remember I’ve never been much of a morning person and I’ve had consistently happy mornings for the last 10 days. And the happiness just spills into the rest of the day, putting my moodiness at bay. I was excited about life before, but the excitement has reached a new level. And this doesn’t feel like a temporary shift. It’s as Oprah and Eckhart were saying, a feeling of "causeless joy" ~ meaning nothing in particular has happened to give me that sense of joy (aside from the goodness that already exists in my life). The joy is just present, and with this new awareness, I now have more and more access to it. And you might think, oh well, hello "urban outfitters"? and I would say YES, that is SO exciting but I knew about that last November.

With all of that said, I felt compelled to share this book with you because it feels as though many of you who find your way here to this blog are "in search" of something more in your life. I really think that this information might resonate with you. Eckhart offers a clarity that seems to be resonating with the world ~ thanks to in part to Oprah’s willingness to share it on such a large scale, and let me tell you, if the world gravitates to this message even a little bit, then we are in for exceptionally EXCITING times to be alive!

I highly, highly recommend the web classes. End they’re free! A new one airs every night and there will be 4 more classes beginning this coming Monday, with the topic of "Finding who you truly are" (should be a good one!). The good news is you can listen to them at any time and all the classes can be found at Oprah.com and on Itunes. I’m also mentioning this today, because Oprah will be discussing the book and talking to people worldwide about the impact this has had on them thus far, on her television show later today.

So, if you feel inspired, Enjoy! And if you’re already tuned into this you’ll have to let me know what you think. You should also know, if you’re already familiar with these concepts, that I’m trying to be especially conscious here in my blog posts and with the podcasts, making sure that they are not being written from my ego or my pain body :).

Thank you Oprah and Eckhart.