Audiobook Books

"The Key" by Joe Vitale is a book that I've recently discovered and have to tell you about!

The "best of the best' & a most highly recommended book!

If you want to go from dreams to reality with some of your most cherished potentials & inner gifts then read "The Key."

Learn how to manifest your inner potentials & live a more enjoyable, creative & fulfilling life.

Absolutely awesome book!

Better read together with:

"NEXUS" by Deborah Morrison and Arvind Singh, a deep & inspiring novel that is sure to change your life!
Nexus: A Neo Novel

I enjoy Joe and his great copywriting skills, but is he holding back on the real secret?

The true secret that is missing is breath! You heard that right...breath.
Check out THE THREE SPIRITS: Applications of Huna to Health, Prosperity, and Personal Growth or any book related to "Huna" or the "Ha Rite".

Interesting how some of these principles from the above mentioned book reflect Joe and his guest speakers views. Huna has been using breath as the way toward manifesting and healing for ages. Breath truly is the hidden and secret key. Search the keyword "Ha Rite" using your favorite search engine, there you will find the missing key you have been looking for all this time!

Very concise book which follows along with the concepts of The Secret. Very good book. Easy to follow.

This book does go beyond The Secret adding and answering many questions that arise after reading Rhonda Byrnes book. Another one of my favorites that answers many unanswered questions and gives you exercises to follow to achieve your desires is Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbook...A must read.

I started to research "DR. Fire". I was unable to find out what type of degree Joe Vitale holds. Oh well I did not want to waste more of my time looking at Joe posing with his cars so I just stopped.
Anyways here is where I found a crucial error in the book....
I was listening to the audio-book by Joe Vitale, "The Key." Joe Vitale is one of the teachers of the now famous book & DVD, The Secret based on the Law of Attraction. Around 44 minutes into the book, Joe Vitale, aka, Mr. Fire starts telling the audience about his friend Joseph Sugarman, author of the numerous books such as Triggers. Joe at this point in his life had swollen lymph nodes and was looking for his friends for moral support. Joe was surprised to hear that his friend Mr. Sugarman was working with Scientists overseas to create a supplement that cures cancer and dissolves tumors. It was not on the market yet, but Joe could get the supplements if he was interested. Joe received a report of the product claming the following:

"Glutathione, is a naturally producing antioxidant. Our cells die because age causes us to produce less glutathione. Protectus120 is the worlds first protected Glutathione."
It claims, that Protectus120 is, "protected as it goes through the stomach, reaches the cells, as a fat soluble substance, since cells are fat soluble, they absorb Protectus120 right through the CELL WALL and provides immune boosting and repair function that we only enjoyed in our youthful years. Joe got the Protectus120 right away and started taking it. What I can't believe is that the report's scientific explanation is incorrect! It claims that Protectus120 reaches the cells and is absorbed through the cell walls. How can this work on humans? If anyone has taken a Cell Biology course they would know this is an obvious hoax. Human's cells do not have cell walls! This medication could have only worked on plant cells as, that is the major difference between an animal cell and plant cell is that:

Animal cells=NO cell wall
Plant cells=Cell wall

I wonder if Joe is a PLANT! Since I have been a scientific researcher all my life, I stopped the book immediately. Don't waste your time and $ on this guy.

This CD was interesting and had a good approach to personal responsibility; something that is sorely lacking in modern society.

What an awakening! One of the most valuable knowledge for inner transformation. We are what we think! James Allen is a Heavenly Intellectual. His deep understanding and meditation into the mental and spiritual realm is a true work of art! Reading this book is like receiving food from Heaven. What a true blessing it is for me to discover this gem! Thank you James Allen!! Your spirit lives on......

This is an amazing work and I've never come across anything quite like it. The elegant prose is beautiful and the messages of inspiration and example are extremely powerful and thought provoking.

I found myself going over certain parts again and again, not because they were difficult or confusing, but because the messages were so profound that I wanted to linger on them for a time before moving on. Truly a classic work in the field of personal development, this is a "must have" addition to you success library.

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I highly recommend this Audio book narrated by Charley Steiner. I have friends and collegues with this audio book narrated by other people who say Charley Steiner's narration is by far the best.

Only because I hated to give up on the book I have read laborously through 28 chapters. I finally just decided
in spite of not knowing the meaning to most of the words I would try to find a plot. However other than putting
me quickly to sleep every time I try to read it it has become a challenge even finding a plot. If you don't know anything about Jews or Chess it is not a book that a you would enjoy reading. I think the people who say that they enjoyed it are Jewish Chess players just trying to make you think that they are intellectuals. Noone could possibly have enjoyed this terribly written book. If this is one of the best books of 2007 I would not want to get
near any of the worst! A complete disappointment!

I'm not Jewish and I don't know Yiddish at all. Apparently, unless you have one or both of those qualifications, you may not like this book. I've gotten far in the book but I'm waiting still to like the story or for something to happen to make me understand all the good reviews. Seeing Mr. Chabon's tight smile on the book insert at the end seems to be trying to reassure that it will get better but I think it won't. I am leaving a bad review b/c I think I know at this point that I will never get into the book although I understand the basic story but can't get any enjoyment out of it since I don't understand what they're really saying.

Peel away all the Yiddish jargon and what I found left was your average cozy mystery. I understand a lot of Yiddish and I still found myself having trouble following the dialogue. It was confusing keeping all the names straight. "Yid" this and "Yid" that - everywhere like too much salt on the meat. OY. And please, with all the Yiddish jargon to make us feet right at home in fantasy-land Jewish Alaska, and then he writes about "noodle pudding"? What?!?! Why not just say kugel? For goodness sakes. I found this book tedious to read and get through. Ultimately a somewhat satisfying mystery. But I don't get all the hype unless it's just for the sake of uniqueness. Sorry.

The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a delightfully fun read set in part of Alaska set aside as a refuge for the Jews after the Holocaust. The United States, after the Israelis lost their war for independence, leases the territory to the Jews for sixty years. But now the lease is up and most of the Jews will have to find another home. This sets of a series of events that starts with the death of a chess prodigy and continues through convolutions that would take the Eruv Maven to sort out.

Instead of Hebrew and redemption, the they speak the Yiddish of exile. Many of the metaphors that seem odd in English work well when understood that it is meant to be understood as a literal translation of the Yiddish (translated back to Yiddish it works). Buildings and streets have names culled from the cannon of Yiddish literature. The reader familiar with Yiddish language and literature will have to stop every few pages to laugh with recognition, at least until the tragedy embedded in the plot becomes apparent.

The reader unfamiliar with Yiddish will definitely miss most of the inside jokes, like a Shoyfer (Shofar-ritual horn -- Cell phone), Sholem for a gun (Shalom-Peace-Piece),and Shomer (watchman for a corpse before burial). Leo Rosten's The Joys Of Yiddish could be a helpful companion book.

There have been enough reviews of Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen Union," that I see no advantage in summarizing the plot of his book once again. What I want to discuss is the author's confused and confusing use of two languages.

In Chabon's author's note he acknowledges Reb [sic] Valadimir Nabokov. That "Reb" was completely bilingual. He understood the character of Russian as well as English; he wrote books in both languages. When it comes to being bilingual, Chabon is no Nabokov. These days, progressive editors permit authors to use foreign words or terms without italicizing them, provided readers will understand them from the context, because they are repeated often enough. Chabon's first mistake is using hundreds of Yiddish words that readers cannot understand from the context. Some reviewers suggested that Chabon should have added a Yiddish glossary at the end of the book. Chabon's readers are not college students who must struggle with obscure texts with words they need to look up. His second mistake is a complete lack of understanding of the spirit of Yiddish, even though he is familiar with the vocabulary. For instance: He refers to the personal weapons of the cops in Sitka as "sholem," which is supposed to be a translation of "peace maker." (Are there cops today who refer to their weapons as peace makers?) It borders on the ridiculous to use this Yiddish word for a weapon, because it just means peace (without "maker"). If this is supposed to be a Chabon linguistic joke, non-Yiddish-speaking readers won't get it; and most Yiddish speakers will not be amused.

As Chabon tells his story, the Jews of Sitka speak mostly Yiddish. If that is so, the protagonist, not a particularly well-educated cop, would not think in terms of an "inverse satori," a Japanese Zen Buddhist concept. Readers may feel that "satori" was used solely to show the author's erudition. If Yiddish is the prevailing language of Sitka, one would assume that the inhabitants would speak it idiomatically. Why would they say, in THEIR language, "I want you should," which native-Yiddish speakers sometimes use in English?

Yiddish is an earthy language, given to simple and very strong expressions, not the baroquely ornate English the author uses throughout the work. I have no quarrel with his style, but it does not fit into the language of Sitka. It is, to use a Chabonism, de trop. Foreign words in an English text are the frosting on the cake. The cake is the plot. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet without using Danish words, and Romeo and Juliet without Italian.

I'll end with my own obiter dictum - I believe I have caught the Chabon linguistic bug. How can one write about a Jewish autonomous region in Alaska, established in 1948, without mentioning Birobijan? It is a remote area in Siberia, adjacent to the Chinese border that Stalin established in 1928 as an Autonomous Jewish Region - a Soviet planned competitor to the emerging Jewish homeland in Palestine. There are at least two striking similarities: The biting cold of Birobijan in wintertime (probably worse than in Alaska), and Yiddish as a semi-official language. Just as in Sitka, even under the communists, there must have been ordinary Yiddish-speaking cops on duty, to keep the new inhabitants in line.

One of my long term favourite expressions is "set a pace you can maintain forever but sense of urgency wins". Sense of urgency is very much tied to Time Management. People and companies with a sense of urgency win. Its that simple.

Sense of urgency has been one of my secret tricks over the years. Now, John Kotter has written a very simple, fast, easy to read book on the topic called "A Sense of Urgency" that not only explains why we need a sense of urgency but explains strategy and tactics on how to develop it and make it real.

Kotter especially speaks of the need for urgency in times of change.

He also speaks of the dangers of false urgency - how to identify it and deal with it. All appearances of high activity and action are not neccessarily true or positive urgency.

Some text from the book (greatly summarized):

Crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change.

1. If a sense of urgency is not high enough, everything else becomes so much more difficult.

2. Success easily produces complacency.

3. The opposite of urgency is not only complacency. Itâ(tm)s also a false or misguided sense of urgency that is as prevalent today as complacency itself and even more insidious.

4. Mistaking what you might call false urgency from real urgency is a huge problem today. People constantly see the frenzied action, assume that it represents true urgency.

5. It most certainly is possible to recognize false urgency and complacency and transform each into a true sense of urgency. There is a strategy.

6. Urgency is becoming increasingly important because change is shifting from episodic to continuous.

Put simply a strong sense of urgency is moving from an essential element in big change programs to an essential asset in general.

The number one problem they have is all about creating a sense of urgency - and that's the first step in a series of actions needed to succeed in a changing world.

False urgency is a condition that is very different from complacency. While complacency embraces the status quo, false urgency can be filled with new activities. While complacency often has a sort of sleepy quality, false urgency is filled with energy. False urgency is built on a platform of anxiety and anger.

Anxiety and anger drive behavior that can be highly energetic - which is why people mistake false for true urgency. But the energy from anger and anxiety can easily create activity, not productivity.

The Strategy

Create action that is exceptionally alert, externally oriented, relentlessly aimed at winning, making some progress each and every day, and constantly purging low value-added activities - all by always focusing on the heart and not just the mind.

The Tactics (you really have to read to book to understand these)

1. Bring the Outside in
2. Behave with Urgency Every Day
3. Find Opportunity in Crises
4. Deal with the NoNos

Speed will only increase. A sense of urgency will only become more essential.

John Kotter, professor emeritus of the Harvard Business School, has just written his newest book, A Sense of Urgency. It's an excellent explication of the first tenet of Kotter's now well known 8-step change theory (From his book Leading Change):

1. Establish a sense of urgency.
2. Create a guiding coalition.
3. Develop a vision and a strategy.
4. Communicate the change vision.
5. Empower employees for broad-based action.
6. Generate short-term wins.
7. Consolidate gains and produce more change.
8. Anchor new approaches in the culture.

Kotter believes that urgency is critical to this whole process; simply put, no urgency--no change.

Kotter drills down into the weeds on establishing a sense of urgency and gives the reader some clear reasons for improving companies:

Successful companies tend to be complacent and do little; companies that raise a false sense of urgency run around like chickens with their heads cut off--frazzled; only those companies working off a true sense of urgency tend to produce change that matters. Kotter further explains that complacent and under-fire companies are too focused on the internal (strengths and weaknesses) and very little on the external threats and opportunities. If you'll recall the well-known strategic planning mantra S.W.O.T (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats), Kotter's urgency theory makes a lot of sense. Again, the progressive and productive companies look not just inward but especially outward--at how opportunity and threats must be faced squarely.

To increase this sense of urgency, the author provides a simple but effective strategy: "Create action that is exceptionally alert, externally oriented, relentlessly aimed at winning, making some progress each and every day and constantly purging low value-added activities--all by always focusing on the heart and not just the mind."

You'll need to read the book for the valuable detail that Kotter provides. The following is a cursory overview:

1. Bring the outside in (connect to the customer and the world outside the corporate walls).
2. Behave urgently every day (make urgency--not anxiety or anger--part of the culture focused on external opportunities and threats).
3. Find opportunity in crisis (be careful but look for opportunity in the midst of any crisis).
4. Deal with the NoNos who block change (neutralize and remove those urgency-killers, who will keep the group in a deadly complacent static state in an ever-changing world. Healthy skeptics are not a threat, but the NoNos are).

Kotter has hit the nail squarely in this easy-to-read book. Having seen all sorts of companies up close, I think Kotter has described a practical method for getting people to be productive--by creating a real sense of urgency.

The narrator can make so many different character voices sometimes I could not believe they were done by only one person.

The narration is arresting and dynamic, although jarring in one respect: I do not conceive of Huck as sounding like Bill Clinton when he is whining.

This books is great, and the narrator is great, too. You'll never regret buying this book.
It's about boyhood and adventures that Tom Sawyer, a playful boy, makes up as he goes along.

Glenn Harrold has the perfect voice for meditation tapes. I love all his CD's.

These CD's are an easy listen filled with wonderfully phrased, motivational words. Glenn's Australian accent is a pleasure to listen to. Places on the CD have music as well that accompanies the voice. I LOVE these CD's and own most of them. If you live in the states you may hear an occassional terminology that is not common in the U.S. (Example, in the weight series he uses a weight measurement of a 'stone' which is a British term that represents 14 pounds). This happen rarely and certainly does not detract from the message presented in any of Glenn's CD's. You can't really listen to these in the car as they are a little hypnotic so be sure you are in a stress free mind set and location when you listen to any of therse CD's. I felt they were worth every penny.

I had bought Glen's CD - Guided Meditation a while back and loved it so much that I bought a couple more of his CD's. I listed to this on my IPOD during my lunch break and felt so peaceful, calm, and happy soon after. I came back to work and was very productive and focused yet calm. I really recommend this to anyone who wants to feel peace, happy, and positive.

This does work, it does calm and it helped get rid of jittery nerves. Great item.

I have one other Glenn Harrold CD on healing your body. I like this one on creating peace within during all these stressful world and local events. I like the second session on this CD as I really don't feel I need the long explanation he gives on abdominal breathing that is presented on the first of two relaxation sessions on this CD. His British accent is very soothing for me and most of the time I am sleeping before the completion of the talks.

By definition, a "raving fan" is a customer that is so happy with your company that they praise your actions to anyone who might possibly listen. They are the best form of advertisement and the hardest to acquire. Changing your customer service strategy so that you have raving fans rather than customers is the point of this book and the story is told in parable form.
The two main characters are Area Manager and Charlie, his male fairy "godmother." Using the magic that all fairy godmothers possess, Charlie takes Area Manager to several companies that generate their own raving fans. The strategy is common and ubiquitous across industries; treat your customer as a coveted and valued asset rather than a source of revenue to be squeezed.
Another very important point is that to be successful in the area of customer service, you must first decide what you want to do. A fundamental component of this is to realize that not all potential customers are desirable ones. The fact is that some people are simply unsuitable as customers. Decide up front that they are not what you want to do and don't do it. Focus on what you can and want to do well.
Ken Blanchard has once again been an author of a book that points the way to success in business. The path to success is by providing quality service that appears costly, but that is a mirage. Good customer service is one of the best ways possible to make money and save time by spending money and using time to provide it. This is one of the best management books ever written, made even better by the simplicity of the presentation.

This is one of the most informative and fun-to-read books I've ever read. There is so much to be learned and to think about. Really gets your energy and mind going.

I'm excited by the concept of Raving Fans, but the author uses a storytelling approach with a fairy god mother (no kidding) to talk about a few simple principles.

I bought this in lieu of buying th book and am glad I did. We slipped it in and played it while on a day trip on the road. We are Amazon booksellers and found the information very helpful in our applying it to our bookselling business. The narration is story form which helps keep it interesting as well.

This book has a rather flimsy message. Simply stated it is that you can smash your competition and achieve exceptional success in sales by adhering to a deceptively simple formula: Know what you want; know what the customer wants, deliver beyond the client's expectation, and never stop enhancing your service. The message is delivered in a writing style known as "mystical realism" in the fiction world, and which doesn't work quite as well in the non-fiction world. There is some real magic here, though, and it's on the cover of the book, "More than One Million copies sold." This probably relates to the fact that the target audience is, in fact, probably not all that literate, that it reduces an MBA in Marketing to a 75 minute read, that the print is large, and of course the whimsical and all too frequent references to the game of golf. The fact is that salesfolk periodically need to have their batteries recharged, and this book is a quick-charge. It gives the reader the feeling that he has learned something new, and that the business world is really much less complex than appearances would suggest. I read it as mandatory preparation for a Xinnix seminar, and if they thought this book had exceptional value, I'm worried about how simplistic their seminar might be.

I have just started listening to the course and so far so good. I think this is going to be a great addition and encourage others to at least consider when looking for servent leadership. A cd in the car is great, no reading required and it makes the time go by faster while at the same time learning and refeshing yourself.

The best selling author of The Servant, James Hunter, guides us through 4 CD's packed with practical advice for how to change your way of thinking about "leaders" without thinking in terms of managers or supervisors. Although it is a very useful tool for business, it also provides an opportunity for it to work within relationships - family, friends and life in general. To truly be an inspirational leader you must serve those that you lead. For example, if you want to ruin a business, just treat your employees bad and they'll take it out on the customers!

Where two or more people are together there is an opportunity for leadership. Different authors do call it different things, and this is not an entirely new idea, however, Servant Leadership is all to do with people, relationships, character and doing the right thing. Large organisations are taking this on, practising these principles to increase morale, productivity, and profit. Using these techniques, the power to influence and inspire confidence appears to work when you hear which big companies are named as fans of this profound seminar. Good management is no longer good enough, you need good leaders! It's about who you are and your ability to inspire people to action, to influence people to be the best they can be.

This course excited me. I found it encouraging as it inspired me to raise my game, increase confidence and achieve goals in both my personal and business life. For it to work, however, you must be willing to learn, and then put it into practice. This is one step that James Hunter is very hot on. It's easy to get excited just by reading a book, or in this case listening to the CD's, but to become a better leader and serve you must put what you have learnt into practice. The twelve page study guide included within this course ensures a road map (a way to apply this) is provided. As James C. Hunter says, to truly benefit, you must move what you have learnt from your head to your heart, then from your heart into your actions. Inspiring!

Sassy Brit
Alternative-Read
June 2007

James C. Hunter takes ancient concepts and presents them in a modern format to encourage change in the workplace. All aspects of leaderships are addressed from the basics of good character to the finer elements of putting love and kindness into action.

What is it most people want to see in a leader?
What does it mean to serve as a leader?
What is the definition of character?
How can leaders inspire their workers to excellence?
What truly motivates employees?

The booklet with the CD set includes exercises:

Exercise 1 - A Leadership Skills Inventory
Exercise 2 - Leadership Skills Inventory - Self-Assessment
Exercise 3 - Leadership Skills Inventory Summary
Exercise 4 - Leadership Skills Inventory Summary...continued
Exercise 5 - Smart Action Plan

Through the exercises (which are discussed in detail on the CDs) you learn how to become a better leader through self-analysis. There are also ways to get feedback from your employees. A small business card with a summary of the presentation is also included for easy reference.

James C. Hunter has well-organized thoughts on leadership and an engaging teaching style. He can at times emphasize points by making you feel uncomfortable with a topic, therefore ensuring you won't forget his points. Hugging and spanking don't really mean hugging and spanking. In this case they mean encouraging or giving admonition. But with those types of labels, you are sure not to forget the main points.

I sat listening to the four CDs focusing on them completely the entire time, completely captivated by the wisdom side of the topic at hand. The main points on these CDs are truly secrets for success. The sparkling glints on the water in this presentation are truly diamonds.

~The Rebecca Review

This excellent audio offers immediate, practical techniques for learning what it mean to serve as a leader; How can leaders inspire their workers to excellence; understanding the role of character in leadership, learning to use influence instead of intimidation to achieve your goals, and much more.

The 5th Horseman
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Review by AMenace2Poetry

In The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, you are taken on an unbelievable ride where you aren't helping solve one mystery; rather, two: Murders are occurring inside the San Francisco Municipal Hospital where victims are found with coins over their eyes, and there are glamorized and accessorized female bodies showing up in cars with the same perfume dabbed upon their genitalia. Join Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends as they race against time to solve these mysteries and end these murders!

Okay, I could've told more about what happened in the book, but if I did that, it wouldn't give you any motivation to read it. I do believe, however, that if I speak of what I found captivating in the novel, you may be more prone to. So, these are my thoughts and opinions (read: emphasis on MY) about The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

First, I'll start with what I like to call "the positives." The book is broken up into several chapters; however, each chapter is only a page or three long, so it gives one the impression that he/she is covering more of the novel at a faster pace. The characters are great together, as if they're the best of friends. Even Det. Boxer's relationship with her boyfriend, Joe, feels "right." My favorite character was Yuki Castellano, a young lawyer whose mother has been rushed to San Francisco Municipal Hospital. She's full of emotion, and I could actually see her feelings... if that makes any sense at all.

Now, on to "the negatives." Although the book is broken up into one-three page chapters and readers are left feeling as if they have become speedsters, the book, I feel, moves too quickly. There isn't enough pausing in the book. Well, what does that mean? I don't feel that the characters are fleshed out enough, and the situations could use more time spent on them. While the characters are "good together" (for lack of a better phrase), I don't feel as if Patterson or Paetro spent enough time working out the kinks. My least favorite character was Cindy Thomas. Why? She was... again, for lack of a better phrase, annoying. While she did play the role of reporter to a T, I think there were some things she should've kept to herself as opposed to writing about it. But that's just me. You may find her to be an amazing character.

I'll stop there. I try not to overanalyze anyone's work, and I do believe that Patterson (especially) and Paetro (not especially -- never heard of her) are great authors. So, I've missed a few books within this Women's Murder Club series, but The 5th Horseman makes me feel as if I'm kept in the loop. Overall, on a scale from 1 to 5, I would rate this as a 2 1/2 or maybe lowish 3.

Great book. This was a "page turner". You could NOT put this book down. I enjoyed the whole series of the Woman's Murder Club. Am waiting for the next book from James Patterson. Thanks, Mr. Patterson for such great entertainment.

My experience with Amazon has been great. Thank you.

after hearing his works praised by multiple friends. I found the novel to do what fiction should - provides an escape from your life and plants you into the life of another. Here, you're given a birds-eye view of San Fran detective, Lindsay Boxer, on her way to busting vicious killers. The book was an interesting, quick read - a good book to pick up for a road trip or an evening at home. I recommend it, and look forward to reading other novels by this author.

I was very pleased when I received my audio book. Not only was it in excellent condition, I received it promply.

Good for a used product. I collect hardbacks from particular authors so I was fortuate to find it at such a good price. Thank you.

The problem with the sound recording is that it fades in and out. Therefore, in some spots, Eckhart sounds like he is mumbling. I had to turn my player up to the highest decibel level to be able to hear what he had to say, especially at the beginning. The sound gets stronger towards the end of the program. Nevertheless, it is well worth listening to him, even if you have to go over certain tracks a few times.

I am glad I was able to tune into this retreat, but was puzzled that the publisher thought the product was good enough to release without amplifying the sound to produce a more even result. I wonder if they put the CDs through a quality control process.

I have almost all of Mr. Tolle's works, and I was disappointed with the audio on these cd's. I cannot embrace the message of Mr. Tolle because He sounds like he is in the back of a long pipe. Perhaps this is just a bad copy....but I will think twice about the cd collections next time... just get the book?

This set of CD's is chock full of Tolle's transformational teachings. His voice is mesmerizing and his wicked little chuckles reveal a side of him that is not found immediately in his recent book "A New Earth". Unfortunately, the recording quality is funky. Even with the volume turned all the way up in my Scion xB, the master is hard to hear. Be sure to choose a quiet surrounding in which to listen!

Eckhart Tolle has a strong sense of humour and his sessions are pure as crystal...just listen...that's it

The Art of Presence is another extraordinary CD release by one of the clearest and most pragmatic spiritual teachers of our times. He guides you how to deepen the realization of your essential nature and points that the answer is in your attention. You can progressively strengthen the quality of this relaxed alertness and eventually sustain it, which allows a shift beyond the mind-made self and all of its compulsive thinking.

During his 7 hours of instruction, you learn how to ground yourself in the inner body and how to connect with the perceiver of your experiences to realize the wisdom of spiritual surrender. Accessing this higher intelligence then empowers right action. This is a retreat from the chaos of the life story into the fullness of life here and now.

Included in this collection he addresses overcoming the addiction to emotions, transforming your relationship with the present moment, how to truly meet another person, why form is never ultimately fulfilling, resting as inner stillness, time freedom, nature as teacher, the quickest way to transcend fear, the practice of allowing and freeing the pain body.

Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment