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A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now...

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Get Ready to Be Awakened by Oprah Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth - Oprah Winfrey Network
Watch the series debut on Sunday, March 23, at noon ET/PT immediately following the season premiere of "Super Soul Sunday." Subscribe to OWN: http://bit.ly/1...

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By Anthony Meindl | Posted March 5, 2014, 10 a.m.

Pilot season. How do you survive it?

What do you do when you test for multiple roles but dont end up getting any of them? What do you do when you see your friends going out for weekly auditions and you havent heard from your reps in weeks? What do you do when you get bad feedback on an auditionand therefore no opportunity to testwhen you thought you hit it out of the park?

Breathe.

Getting through pilot season requires the actor to not get caught up in the energy and frenetic pace in which agents, managers, casting directors are often forced to work. Even though everyone else is stressed out, feeling the pressure, and having to deliver, doesnt mean you have to.

What if you just practiced some mindfulness and remembered these few simple points:

1. Everyone is doing the best they can with the chaos of having to have everything done yesterday. From agents to managers to casting directorseveryone is trying to find the right talent for the right role. Sometimes that might be you and many, many times it wont. Its not personal.

2. Remember that pilot season is a few short months. What does or doesnt happen in those months doesnt mean youre doomed to be unemployed the rest of your life, or that youre a terrible actor. Its a tiny window of your life as an artist. You didnt let only the first three years of your life define you as a person, so why would you let a couple months do so now? Dont let this moment now define everything you are and everything youre capable of. (Everything is ultimately about the now, but its not about your judgment of it and what you think it should be.)

3. Allow yourself to be human. Youre not a robot. That means sometimes youre going to be awesome in the room and sometimes you might just tank.

4. Be patient. Sometimes the thing you think you want is really not the best thing for you. Let things evolve as they naturally will, not as you force them. Besides forcing something never works.

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Awakening in the Digital Age: Eckhart Tolle, Karen May
One-on-One with Eckhart Tolle and Karen May. At Wisdom 2.0 2014, http://www.wisdom2conference.com.

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Stephen Lovekin

Hes a hip-hop mogul, New York Times best-selling author, and proud dad of two, and thats not even the half of it. As fast as you can list Russell Simmons seemingly endless achievements, he adds to them. His capacity for success and his passion for philanthropic and social initiatives seems both limitless and effortless. How does he do it? His new book, out tomorrow, called Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple, goes some way to explain it. A practical guide to the benefits of meditation, it makes a compelling, thoroughly researched case, and offers readers straightforward guidance on how to get started. Here, Simmons discusses what he considers to be the greatest tool to promote happiness.

Your book includes the quote: To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Some think of meditation as being hippy-dippy but that projects great power.

Its still a little bit of a lofty quote! But you know, the fact is those who understand what were seeking, those who know, they just need an example...like when I tell a basketball player about when hes in the zone -- when the rim feels like its as big as the ocean, you cant miss it. When you read a word and youre not even breathing, because you are in total concentration. This shock or this beauty that promotes this shock, or this music that promotes this stillness, is a catalyst.

What youre looking for is lasting stillness, stable, lasting stillness, or bliss. Whenever the noise is gone, then everything is beautiful.

And we dont know how to get into it, whether its running up and down the basketball court until finally you get a second wind and the world just opens up because you become present. You cannot induce it through the other vehicles always. Music is helpful to people who love music, and beauty for those people who want to go look at sights and say, Oh my God, look at that sunset. These things are all helpful, but they kind of shock you into presence. What youre looking for is lasting stillness, stable, lasting stillness, or bliss. Whenever the noise is gone, then everything is beautiful. You can actually see Gods miracles unfolding.

What would you say to young men who think meditating might make them look weird or weak?

I know how to talk to them. I can explain it depending on who I am talking to. I kind of made it as simple as I could, so much so that my 11 year-old daughter said that the book was written like See Spot Run. I said, This is as highbrow as Daddy can get! I said, Is there anything in there you didnt already know about meditation? She said, Yes. Some of the research. I said, Well, good, there you go, you learned something, shut up! My 11 year-old daughter thought my book was written for a child! Shes pretty smart, they both go to a school for the gifted, so theyre both geniuses and they get it from their Mama. Daddy is a little bit simpler.

I think that my job is taking complex scripture and complex ideas and simplifying them as much as I can without losing their essence.

Theres a reason that some things are written in terms that are more sophisticated, and scriptures are more difficult to grasp. Not only because people like to use big words, but because they want to really pinpoint the experiences. I think that my job is taking complex scripture and complex ideas and simplifying them as much as I can without losing their essence, and its a fun one. Writing my Twitter keeps me in prayer. And doing that with scripture and with spiritual principles is something that makes me very happy, so thats why I write these books.

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His animal-and-earth friendly philosophy has made cartoonist Patrick McDonnell a favorite with comic strip readers. Beginning next week, his popular Mutts comic will appear daily.

The strip explores the special bond between animals and their guardians, and the endearing friendship of Earl, the dog, and Mooch, the cat.

Its just cute the way the dog and cat interact, says Jan Davidson of Tipp City, who voted for Mutts in our recent readers poll, and says she finds the strip very funny.

Animals contribute to our happiness and our well-being, McDonnell says. In my strip, I try to capture those small moments of happiness that celebrate the human/animal bond. All animals are intelligent and have awareness and feelings. They are fellow beings and deserve to share this beautiful planet with us in peace. I try to see the world through their eyes, and give them a voice, while still keeping Mutts fun and entertaining.

He seems to be succeeding : Mutts is now is tickling readers fancies in more than 700 newspapers and is read in 20 countries. McDonnell has won the National Cartoonists Societys highest honor, The Reuben, for Cartoonist of the Year and five Harvey Awards for Best Comic Strip.

On an international level, it has won Germanys Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip and the Swedish Academy of Comic Arts Adamson Statuette.

Mutts has also won awards for its environmental and animal advocacy: two Genesis Awards from The Ark Trust, The HSUS Hollywood Genesis Award for Ongoing Commitment, the PETA Humanitarian Award, and a Sierra Club award.

A book author as well

McDonnell has published a number of books: In Shelter Stories: Love, McDonnells animal shelterthemed strips are accompanied by real-life pet adoption stories submitted by readers worldwide. In 2009, he collaborated with The Power of Now author Eckhart Tolle to create Guardians of Being.

The Mutts cartoons have been published in 22 compilation books in the United States and in numerous collections throughout the world. In 2003, fine art publisher Harry N. Abrams published MUTTS: The Comic Art of Patrick McDonnell, a monograph on McDonnells career.

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This year, the nine-day School has more participants than ever before. With the event fast approaching, registration levels continue at an all-timehigh.

The School for The Work is an expansive journey toward freedom. Each day during the School, many participants find that they are feeling happier than the day before. Mental habits and constrictions can easily fall away in the light of understanding, and as the mind clears, the whole worldbrightens.

The exercises and activities in the School for The Work are designed to mirror the transformation Byron Katie went through after her experience of waking up to reality in 1986. She is present with participants from morning to night, directing every exercise, answering questions, and commenting on feedback. Issuescovered

include sexuality, relationships, children and parents, anxiety, body image, God, death and dying, addiction, health, money, andwork.

What fascinated me during the School is how Katie organized the program so holisticallyactivities followed one another in a way that created a massive learning curve. I am aware that what she does in The Work is beyond educational paradigms, and I am not saying this from a position of an evaluator, but as a professional interested in how people learn. I was amazed at the way she fit the contentthe hard-to-explain, what is beyond what we are used tointo a perfect methodology. Z. fromSerbia

The School works for every participant who comes to it with an open mind. The results are more radical, more generous, than you can possibly imagine. ByronKatie

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Wisdom 2.0: Eckhart Tolle Meditation
Eckhart Tolle leads a meditation on "The Power of the Present Moment."

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ALL-NEW SEASON OF EMMY AWARD-WINNING SERIES "SUPER SOUL SUNDAY" PREMIERES SUNDAY, MARCH 23 AT 11 A.M. ET/PT ON OWN

This Season of "Super Soul Sunday" Features Shirley MacLaine, Arianna Huffington, Gary Zukav and Sue Monk Kidd

"Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth" 10-part Series To Air Immediately Following For The First Time on Television

Los Angeles - The all-new season of the Emmy Award-winning daytime series "Super Soul Sunday," designed to help viewers awaken to their best selves and discover a deeper connection to the world around them, premieres with legendary actress Shirley MacLaine on Sunday, March 23 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Immediately following is the premiere of the 10-part series, "Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth," which debuts Sunday, March 23 at 12 p.m. ET/PT on OWN.

The new season of "Super Soul Sunday" features Academy Award-winning actress and spiritual seeker Shirley MacLaine; media mogul and founder of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington; spiritual teacher and bestselling author of "The Seat of the Soul" Gary Zukav; Oprah's Book Club 2.0 author and bestselling author of "The Secret Life of Bees" Sue Monk Kidd; bestselling author and Omega institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser; award-winning time-lapse filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg; Harvard researcher and bestselling author of "Happiness Advantage" Shawn Achor; television writer and relationship author Tracy McMillan; and spiritual teacher and author of "Falling Into Grace" Adyashanti.

"Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth" is based on Oprah's groundbreaking and wildly successful 2008 web series on Eckhart's New York Times bestselling book "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose." In this 10-part series, Oprah and Eckhart take viewers on a chapter-by-chapter journey through Eckhart's seminal work. These thought-provoking discussions, framed with brand-new content, will teach viewers how to focus and become more aware and present, and to begin to understand the motivations of the ego.

Sunday, March 23

Super Soul Sunday: Oprah & Legendary Actress Shirley MacLaine: The Soul of A Star (11 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET/PT) Oprah sits down with legendary actress Shirley MacLaine to discuss her illustrious career, her longtime interest in spirituality, and her latest book, "What If... A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure."

Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth - Chapter 1 (12 p.m. - 1 p.m. ET/PT) Oprah and Eckhart Tolle present their 2008 web series on Eckhart's groundbreaking book "A New Earth." The premiere episode introduces the book with personal stories from Eckhart and discussions of consciousness, presence and purpose.

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