In reply to hokkyokusei: I really wouldn't waste your time with Tolle, imo he's another self help guru masked as a philosopher.
In summary - We all have negative thoughts sometimes, they can be self fulfilling, our thoughts and identity are framed by the past, our thoughts make up our ego, therefore we should abandon the ego, step back from our thoughts and let fate direct our hand to the promised land.
Apparently you can't just say "don't dwell so much on the bad stuff" without writing a book promising a new dawn and a new life of spiritual enlightenment.
All self help books start the same way, they lure you in like astrologists, but instead of saying "Oh it's someone called Jason, no Jack, no, John, yes that's it" they lure you with a phrase or a thought that makes you think, "omg that is so me". In Tolle's case it's the "I'm so bad at everything/bad things always happen to me" type of phrases. We've all been there and he knows that. It's human nature to want more, someone understands you, so you read on, you find other nuggets that make you feel less alone, so you read on more and it's easy to ignore the lack of logical argument and before you know it you're converted.
The conclusion should be something simple like don't be an arrogant dick and don't let the shit get you down, but no self help book ends like that, they always end with enlightenment.