The Compassionate Eye is changing its direction from today. Eckhart Tolle wrote a book that followed The Power of Now—a second book, which was published before he wrote the book Oprah picked for her book club, A New Earth.

This book is called Stillness Speaks and it’s a wonderfully insightful and incredibly powerful read. So we are going to begin slowly working our way through it in this daily blog.

Says Shug in the novel The Color Purple, later made into a wonderful movie in which Oprah Winfrey starred alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, and Danny Glover:

Here’s the thing, the thing I believe, God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside, find it.

A recent Oprah quote of the day from Paul Boese: “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

But just how does forgiveness enlarge the future?

The answer is by redeeming the past.

That is, what happened in the past proves to be the very makings of our future.

There's a tendency for humans to view behavior that’s less than our best as a mistake we must not just forgive and move on from but also feel remorse for and deeply regret.

During the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle webinar series featuring A New Earth, I flew to Chicago to be in the filming studio for a live session. It was an opportunity not to be missed.

To be with Eckhart during that time, to meet Oprah in person, to become acquainted with many of her staff and witness how committed and hardworking they are was one of the highlights of my life.

It was Eckhart who pointed out to both Oprah and myself that this particular evening was the 10^th anniversary of the publication of The Power of Now.