The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

I am trying to rush-read Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now because tomorrow I start a class on a later book of his called A New Earth; Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. Well, it's just impossible to rush-read Tolle. Everything he writes reverberates with cosmic significance and you have to stop and ask yourself "Is this true? Do I believe this?" and you work to fit it in with your own thoughts and emotions and experience.

In one paragraph on page 99 he has what could be a statement of my own faith:

"Everything that exists has Being, has God-essence, has some degree of consciousness. Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise, it would not be, and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The sun, the earth, plants, animals, humans -- all are expressions of consciousness in varying degrees, consciousness manifesting as form."

And then, wham! bang! on the next page he hits you over the head with this: "In present-day humans, consciousness is completely identified with its disguise."

By "disguise" I think he means the separate physical form in which God-consciousness is expressing itself. We humans see ourselves as separate entities rather than what we really are which is drops of God-consciousness in the greater ocean of God.