WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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Eckhart Tolle

March 1, 2008

Has Oprah Learned?

I can’t believe I’m doing this. At the encouragement of a friend, I am reading a New Age book, and participating in a New Age event. Next Monday, Oprah’s Book Club is presenting a Live Web Event: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, with author Eckhart Tolle. This is from Tolle’s invitation to… Continue reading

A New Earth

A New Earth, Books, Eckhart Tolle, New Age, Oprah, skepticism, spirituality, The Secret

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Eckhart Tolle

Has Oprah Learned?