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“Why write another book?” a friend of mine commented when I told him I had just started writing A New Earth.  “What else can you possibly say that you haven’t said already in The Power of Now?”

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I could see his point.  Countless people from all over the globe had been writing in to tell me that reading The Power of Now had been a life changing experience for them.  So why was I writing another book? Read the rest of this entry »

A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. “Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. “I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you are sitting on?” “Nothing,” replied the beggar. “Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.” “Ever looked inside?” asked the stranger. “No,” said the beggar. “What’s the point? There’s nothing in there.” “Have a look inside,” insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.

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I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself. Read the rest of this entry »