Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

This is the passage that Oprah read during the Chapter 6 webcast.

When you lose touch with your inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.

You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
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From Stillness Speaks © 2003 by Eckhart Tolle. Used with the permission of the New World Library. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.