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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2.0 ANNOUNCES ITS THIRD SELECTION, "THE INVENTION OF WINGS" BY SUE MONK KIDD

Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY - OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, O, The Oprah Magazine and Oprah.com announced today the newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection, "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking). Kidd's new book, which follows the success of her previous novels, "The Secret Life of Bees" and "The Mermaid Chair," is about two unforgettable women, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.

"The moment I finished 'The Invention of Wings,' I knew this had to be the next Book Club selection," said Oprah Winfrey. "These strong female characters represent the women that have shaped our history and, through Sue's imaginative storytelling, give us a new perspective on slavery, injustice and the search for freedom."

For an OBC 2.0 announcement message from Oprah, click here http://www.oprah.com/obcvideo (link with embed code).

"I'm thrilled and honored that Oprah Winfrey chose my novel as her new book club selection," said Sue Monk Kidd. "After researching and writing The Invention of Wings for the past four years, I can't tell you how exciting it is to launch the novel with Oprah's Book Club 2.0. I'm immensely grateful."

In addition to being available in bookstores nationwide beginning January 7, 2014, Oprah's Book Club 2.0 special digital edition of "The Invention of Wings," with exclusive content including a reader's group guide and Winfrey's notes on her favorite passages, will be available for Amazon Kindle, NOOK(R) by Barnes & Noble, on iBooks, Google Play, Kobo(R) and everywhere e-books are sold.

The cross-platform book club's third selection kicks off in an interview in the January issue of O, The Oprah Magazine (on sale nationwide December 17), where Oprah interviews Kidd about her inspiration for the book, how she was able to get inside the characters minds, and also discusses why the book resonated personally with her.

As readers complete their journey through "The Invention of Wings," a follow-up exclusive interview with Oprah and Kidd will be broadcast on the Emmy(R) Award-winning series "Super Soul Sunday," Oprah.com, Facebook.com/OWNtv and Sirius XM's Oprah Radio channel (Sirius 204, XM 107 with Sirius Premier) early next year.

Readers can further engage online through a variety of digital and social media platforms, including:

Oprah.com/bookclub, the book club hub, with original content from Kidd and reading guides with Oprah's personal thoughts about her favorite passages from the book.

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Oroville, CA (PRWEB) December 11, 2013

To assist people in finding their ideal occupation or profession, Suzanne Strisower proudly announces the release of her new book, 111 Inspirational Life Purpose Quotes and Exercises to Find Your Purpose in Life," which will help readers discover their individual purpose in life and to make it simpler to find a fulfilling career rather than just another job.

According to a recent survey for Monster.com, almost 50% of the people in the American workforce are dissatisfied with their current jobs. In a study of over 40,000 people in 300 countries, one of the top qualities of a fulfilling job is the flexibility and freedom to create and be entrepreneurial, reports Mashable.

Over 500 million people a month are trying to find their life purpose, ideal job, or a new career, and they can dramatically decrease the amount of time it takes to find the right direction in life by discovering their purpose. Everyone has something to contribute, and to be able to identify this purpose will allow the individual to grow personally and professionally. comments Strisower.

Fern Gorin, Founder and Director, Life Purpose Institute said, This is one of the most valuable tools and resources that I have ever seen to help people with their life purpose. It is full of tools and processes, and Suzanne is brilliant and thorough in her insight and clarity to help people mover forward in every aspect of their lives.

111 Inspirational Life Purpose Quotes and Exercises to Find Your Purpose in Life is divided into the seven different universal aspects one needs to know to find their purpose in life:

111 Inspirational Life Purpose Quotes and Exercises to Find Your Purpose in Life the workbook is available in and paperback format from all major book retailers. (ISBN: 9781475297669, $19.95, 194 pp). Digital downloads available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, all eReaders, smart phones, laptop and PC systems. View Book Trailer.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Suzanne Strisower, best-selling author, certified Life and Career Coach, Life Purpose Expert, and the creator of the award winning Life Purpose workbooks, 111 Inspirational Life Purpose Quotes and Exercises to Find Your Purpose in Life. She is a true renaissance woman who for the past 35 years has helped thousands of people as an intuitive, life purpose expert, certified life and career coach, spiritual guide, author, speaker, workshop facilitator and radio show host. Suzanne helps people make sense of their lives through their purpose, dreams, intuition, passion and the wisdom they reveal.

The award-winning author of three books, Suzanne recently released a comprehensive life purpose workbook, 111 Inspirational Life Purpose Quotes and Exercises to Find Your Purpose in Life which uses peoples Life Purpose DNA as a way to reveal their purpose. One Hundred Eleven Tweetable Inspirational Life Purpose Quotes: A Book of Inspirational Thoughts, all Tweets, and a new-age fortune telling oracle, The Runes of the Four Realms, plus a spiritual feature-film screenplay, Living with Guides and Angels.

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Eckhart Tolle - From Seed to Tree
In this episode excerpt, Eckhart discusses how the awakening process involves the complete dismantling of our form identities.

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Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine, a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating, and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Since 1995 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada.

Eckhart Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and the highly acclaimed follow-up A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time.

Eckharts profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening includes transcending our ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violent conflict endemic on our planet.

Eckhart is a sought-after public speaker and teaches and travels extensively throughout the world. Many of his talks, intensives, and retreats are published on CD and DVD. Most of the teachings are given in English, but occasionally Eckhart also gives talks in German and Spanish. In addition to The Power of Now and A New Earth, Eckhart has written a book designed for meditative reading entitled Stillness Speaks. A book consisting of selections from The Power of Now entitled Practicing the Power of Now is also available. For more information on Eckhart Tolle, please visit his website.

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Eckhart Tolle, (born Germany, 1948 as Ulrich Tolle) is a contemporary spiritual teacher and writer on spirituality.

Tolle was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. He was born in Germany but lived with his father in Spain from about age 13 until he moved to England in his early 20s. He did not attend formal schooling after age 13, but rather took language and other courses. He attended night colleges to obtain the necessary entrance requirements for University in England.

At the age of 29, he experienced a spiritual transformation that marked the beginning of an intense inward journey and the beginning of his function as a counselor and spiritual teacher.

He now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The name change from Ulrich to Eckhart seems to be a reference to German mystic Meister Eckhart.

Quotations

* All forms are Impermanent.

* Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

* True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

* Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

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Early Life

Eckhart Tolle was born Ulrich Tolle, in Germany in a town near Dortmund, to a matter-of-fact mother and an eccentric, head-in-the-clouds father; they fought, then divorced, and his father left the country for Spain.

At the age of 13, he abruptly refused to go to school - "I hated having to study things that were not compatible with my inner being" he said later.

His exasperated mother eventually sent him to live with his father in Spain. "My father said: 'Do you want to go to school here?' I said, of course, 'No.' Then he said: 'Well then, don't. Do what you like. Read.'" Tolle credits his unconventional upbringing with broadening his mind. "Spain at that time was very different than Germany, almost medieval. So I didn't get totally conditioned by one culture. If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it. My conditioning got completely broken, so there was an opening to other world views.

He did not attend formal schooling after age 13, but rather took language and other courses. Later, he attended night colleges to obtain the necessary entrance requirements for studying in a university in England.

In his early 20s he moved to England to study there at the University of London.

Spiritual Transformation

In 1979, at the age of 29, he was a near-suicidal graduate student living in Belsize Park in London, England.

Tolle had just completed a degree in languages and history at the University of London, graduating with a first, yet he was anything but happy.

He said about that:

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News:

June 2008 - New Eckhart Tolle Book: Milton's Secret According to amazon.com, the book will be released on October 31, 2008. The full title is Milton's Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When, and The Power of Now.

To see the book covers and read a bit more about the book, click here.

March 2008 - Eckhart Tolle & Oprah Webcast Downloads I'm pretty sure that virtually everyone who is the least bit interested in the teachings of Eckhart Tolle would like to listen to the webcast made available for download at Oprah's website: Right now there are 3 formats available of the first webcast: Ipod Video, mp3 and m4a. You may also read an excerpt from the transcript of the first webcast.

October 2006 - Eckhart Tolle MP3 Downloads As of a few weeks ago Amazon.com are offering a wide variety of mp3 downloads. These happen to include several audio CDs of Eckhart Tolle. You can buy the whole album, or even single tracks. I made a slideshow of the available albums. Enjoy.

October 2005 - Eckhart Tolle's New Book Finally Published

You can order the American hardcover edition of the book from amazon.com.

22nd of November 2004 - Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community With the kind assistance and support of Heidi of Peacethings.com I have created an Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community. I would love it if you visit it, introduce yourself and join the discussions.

My Introduction:

I have created this website because Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now has been a great source of peace and wisdom in my life. It is my desire and intent to make an online resource that would be helpful at promoting Eckhart Tolle's teachings.

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a book by Eckhart Tolle. The book is intended to be a self-help guide for day-to-day living and stresses the importance of living in the present moment and avoiding thoughts of the past or future.

Published in the late 1990s,[1] the book was recommended by Oprah Winfrey[2] and has been translated into 33 languages.[3] As of 2009, it was estimated that three million copies had been sold in North America.[4]

The book draws from a variety of "spiritual traditions",[5] and has been described by one reviewer as "Buddhism mixed with mysticism and a few references to Jesus Christ, a sort of New Age re-working of Zen."[6] It uses these traditions to describe a "belief system based on living in the present moment".[7] Its core message is that people's emotional problems are rooted in their identification with their minds as who they are.[8] The author writes that an individual should be aware of their "present moment" instead of losing themselves in worry and anxiety about the past or future.[2]

According to the book, only the present moment is important,[5] and both an individual's past and future is created by their thoughts.[6] The author maintains that people's insistence that they have control of their life is an illusion "that only brings pain".[5] The book also describes methods of relaxation and meditation to aid readers in anchoring themselves in the present.[5] These suggestions include slowing down life by avoiding multi-tasking, spending time in nature, and letting go of worries about the future.[9] Some of the concepts contained in The Power of Now, such as the human ego and its negative effects on happiness, are further elaborated in the author's later books, in particular A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005).[7]

The chapters of the book are: "Introduction", "You Are Not Your Mind", "Consciousness: The Way Out of Pain", "Moving Deeply into the Now", "Mind Strategies for Avoiding the Now", "The State of Presence", "The Inner Body", "Portals into the Unmanifested", "Enlightened Relationships", "Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness There Is Peace" and "The Meaning of Surrender".[10] Various chapters emphasize a "philosophy" of destroying the "destructive dominance of the mind and ego" in an effort to overcome "the pain body".[7] According to the author, his philosophy is directed towards people and their search for personal happiness and also has the potential to give insight into "historical disasters" like the justification of an "evil" political system such as Communism.[7]

In the book's introduction the author relates his past experiences of "continuous anxiety" with periods of "suicidal depression". Later, when he was 29 years old, he had a "personal epiphany" and writes: "I heard the words 'resist nothing' as if spoken inside my chest." He relates that he felt as if he were falling into a void and afterwards "there was no more fear."[11]

In chapter two, Tolle tells the reader that they must recognize their personal ego "without the ego creating an antagonistic response to its own denial or destruction" and explains the purposelessness of the "mental pain and anguish" that people hold on to.[12] According to the book: "The pain-body consists of trapped life-energy that has split off from your total energy field and has temporarily become autonomous through the unnatural process of mind identification."[8] In this chapter the author writes: "pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible".[8] The author goes on to write that "many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness."[5]

In chapter three, the author writes: "In the normal, mind-identified or unenlightened state of consciousness, the power and creative potential that lie concealed in the Now are completely obscured by psychological time. You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."[8]

In chapter four, Tolle says that "tomorrow's bills are not the problem" and can be a "core delusion" that changes a "mere situation, event or emotion" into a reason for suffering and unhappiness.[13] The book also calls "waiting" a "state of mind" that we should snap ourselves out of.[13]

Chapter seven recaps the philosophy of becoming conscious and present in a theological context.[citation needed] These include awareness of the "inner body",'[14] being present in the Now,[15] the cessation of thinking,[16] and surrender.[17] The author writes that, "nothing can exist without no-thing, without the empty space that enables it to be."[18] According to the book, space and time "are the two essential attributes of God, infinity and eternity, perceived as if they had an external existence outside you." Within, "space is the still, infinitely deep realm of no-mind" while "the inner equivalent of time is presence, awareness of the eternal Now."[19]

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