This wildly popular Oprah's Book Club Selection from Eckhart Tolle—the man the New York Times called the most popular spiritual author in the United States—expands on the ideas he presented in The Power of Now. He describes how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, it is the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle explains how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.