I had a similar experience, when I first tried to read The Power of Now. I found it difficult and confusing to read actually, but I persevered, and it wasn’t until a year or so later that I came back to it and read it again (after watching a bunch of YouTube videos of Eckhart speaking, and reading other Buddhist literature) and it finally started making sense and resonating deeply. Having a friend who’d read it too made a big difference because we’d talk about it together and share our understandings 
Then A New Earth came into my life and Wow! At that time, I was ready to read it! I couldn’t put it down. I’ve read it again since too. That was about 2 years ago now. Only last week, I picked up The Power of Now again, and I’m currently re-reading, mostly because I find I forget and become caught up again in worries fears and anxiety - my ego always creeps back in. Actually, that’s one of the reasons I love this forum so much, it helps keep my ego in check 
On Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday podcast, she does 10 episodes with Eckhart where they talk about each chapter of the book - it’s amazing!
If you buy this you can open it anywhere and get a daily dose of some of his best bits from both books
I’ve never read anything from Eckhart Tolle, but am going to start. Which of his books would you recommend reading first? Glad there are so many podcasts/youtube clips to go with this books. Thanks in advance.
Awesome, thanks Paul!! Getting this right now
I would recommend reading A New Earth first @LeeHawk I will post a link to a YouTube vid I watched yesterday too that I thought was great. His teachings come across quite complex at first and can be hard to follow/understand, but keep going and you will have a beautiful awakening and it’s so enlightening and helps to heal the soul (in my experience). 
Edit: I’ll post it on the Eckhart Tolle thread so not to derail this one too much.
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@Lionfish Here is another good one by Don Ruiz.
A lot of the recent ones here are self help, which I don’t usually read so much. My favorite book of recent reads was Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood. Like many great memoirs, you can sort of read life lessons in it, but it’s very deeply grounded in a very particular story, not at all making that rhetorical gesture of Everybody must do this. It’s very funny and very unusual even on the level of the sentence, so many fantastic phrases and observations. I loved that it’s a story that could be told with bitterness or rage: look at what it’s like to grow up with this almost-insane religious right wing background, see how I never got to go to college, look at the mania and the narcissism and the lies, etc. — but instead,that story is secondary to how funny it all is, and she finds beautiful points of connection with her misogynistic fantasist father and her anxious mother, and the vast gap of world views isn’t where she focuses. It’s inspiring as well as laugh out loud funny, and the laughs feel inspiring too. I’m definitely going to reread it, and get her new novel.
Thank you! I’ll definitely check it out 
I love all books by Ken Follet and Lisa Jewell 
I just started “The Wanderer’s Havamal” a translation of the Havamal done by Jackson Crawford.
I think I posted about this series before I’d read it… So I need to post agan in… I highly recommend this series! I never got into twighlight but I enjoyed the films. I feel like this series is me reading that kinda stuff but its not about vampire its about faieres and fantasy… Its just great!! There is 5 books in the series
Inside Out..biography by Demi Moore…so good!
I haven’t started it yet, but am looking forward to it. I adore and get so much from davidji’s meditations on Insight Timer (when the app works).
Awaking higher consciousness: guidance from ancient Egypt and sumer. Also a book called everything is f#cked my Mark Manson. Both great reads so far.
So many books…so little time.
Here’s a few more that I’ve added to the collection. Starting with the new book marker first.
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Had to include a photo of the ladies for good measure.
How true! I mostly stick to what I know though.