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Stillness Speaks is a practical and spiritually profound narrative by the renowned spiritual guru Eckhart Tolle. Summary Of The Book A composite of several spiritual traditions and knowledge condensed into a lucid and concise book, Stillness Speaks addresses the needs of the modern generation in their quest for contentment and inner peace. The book is composed of several ideas, notions and thoughts that ran through the authors head, which he penned down in moments of clarity. He believes that the pressure and stress associated with the past and the present are the fundamental reasons behind aggravation and fear in majority of people’s lives. Stillness Speaks contains ten chapters, discussing topics like Beyond the Thinking Mind, Acceptance and Surrender, Suffering and the End of Suffering, Stillness & Silence and Relationships. The book teaches us how to create and nurture an all encompassing relationship, how to rid yourself of the baggage of guilt, and where and how to find true wisdom. Motivational, implementable and profound, Stillness Speaks takes you on a path to greater self-awareness and understanding, a place where everywhere exists in the nowhere and where everything is found in nothing. The author emphasises on the importance of experiencing things, instead of analyzing them, for in the time you spend in analysis, the experience is lost forever. His teachings are written in clear-cut and short messages, and each chapter is a motley of separate entries amalgamated into one powerful text. About Eckhart Tolle Eckhart Tolle, born in 1948, is a German author, public speaker, and spiritual guru. He has also authored The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Guardians of Being, Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth, and Milton's Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When, and The Power of Now. Born in a small town in Germany, Tolle had an unhappy childhood. He relocated to Spain when he was 13 to live with his father, and studied literature, languages and astronomy at home. He was deeply influenced by the written works of German mystic, Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken. At 19, he relocated again to England where he taught language studies at a London school. He graduated from the University of London, and went on to do his postgraduate research from Cambridge University. Tolle published his first book, The Power of Now, in 1997 and it topped The New York Times Best Seller list.