Posted on 04/17/2008 10:59:02 AM PDT by kingattax
Oprah Winfrey may have gone too far in exploiting and distributing the teachings of a questionable New Age writer.
On Monday night, Winfrey conducted her weekly Web "event" seminar with New Age writer Eckhart Tolle. His message: "Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Got that?
The seminar was No. 7 in a series of 10. On the first 90-minute Webcast with Tolle, Oprah extolled the author’s virtues, calling his best-selling "New Earth" book "one of the most important books of our time," the seminars one of "the most exciting things I’ve ever done."
Imagine that Winfrey considers her conversations with Tolle, a man with a shady and un-checkable background, more important than her schools in Africa and Mississippi for underprivileged children, more important than her Angel Charity network or her zillion-dollar syndicated TV show. Tolle must be something else!
But it’s not like Winfrey is endorsing Maya Angelou or Toni Morrison, serious, educated artists with portfolios. Tolle is more like Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonnegut’s science-fiction crackpot alter-ego.
And what’s different about the Tolle connection for Winfrey is that for the first time in her much-applauded Book Club’s history, she’s gone into business with the author. And the author is not one of a novel, memoir or cookbook; he’s the mysterious creator of a philosophy that Winfrey endorses and suggests her readers live their lives by.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Life is a big bowl and some are floaters. Hope rises but **** floats (sometimes).
You just want to break free.
A statement like this that comes from new agers is crying out to be mocked.
“Life is the hooker and you are the pimp”
“Life is the lint and you are the dryer”
“Life is the box of chocolates and you are the Gump” etc...
Government provides the picnic and we need more ants.
“New Age” is simply Pagan by a modern name.
She said she was a “free thinking Christian” and that “there are many ways to God” - well, she’s no Christian, then.
“The streets ARE life and you are either a playa or played.” - eMpTyV version
Obama said the same thing “there are many ways to God”
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Are we to assume, or not, that a Christian would believe Jesus tells the truth?
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Just wondering, have you ever heard of a band called ‘Dream Theater’? They use the same spelling in a song back in the mid '90s.
Everything but my .50 cal...
(not directed to you personally)
Ooh, ooh, ah
Now, I told you so you ought to know (ooh,ooh,ah)
It takes some time for a feeling to grow (ooh,ooh,ah)
You’re so close now I can’t let you go (ooh,ooh,ah)
And I can’t let go
With you I’m not shy to show the way I feel
With you I might try my secrets to reveal
For you are a magnet and I am steel
I can’t hope that I’ll hold you for long (ooh,ooh,ah)
You’re a woman who’s lost in your song (ooh,ooh,ah)
But the love that I feel is so strong (ooh,ooh,ah)
And it can’t be wrong
With you I’m not shy to show the way I feel
With you I might try my secrets to reveal
For you are a magnet and I am steel
With you I’m not shy to show the way I feel
With you I might try my secrets to reveal
For you are a magnet and I am steel
For you are a magnet and I am steel
For you are a magnet and I am steel
In LIFE, you should stay with the one who brought you to the dance.
Hadn’t heard of that band but maybe that’s where it led someone to spell it that way then I picked it up...
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Yep, that quote of Obama’s really creeps me out ... along with Michelle’s comment about Barack’s ability to fix broken souls.
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
I am the Philly Steak and you are the Cheez Wiz .(Wid).
It is hard for me to take someone seriously whose name spelled backward is “Harpo.” I keep waiting for her to endorse harp music for the salvation of the planet.
Francis, himself
“All we are is dust in the wind...”
“like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives...”
“A little dab’ll do ya.”
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