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Tolle online, practicing the power of
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Introduction
Eckhart Tolle (born Ulrich Tolle) is a German-born spiritual teacher. He is the author of the
bestsellers The Power of Now and A New Earth. Eckhart Tolle had an unhappy childhood in
Germany and Spain, and was depressed as an adult in England until he underwent what he calls
an "inner transformation". Eckhart Tolle then spent several years as a vagrant, "in a state of
deep bliss", before becoming a spiritual teacher. He eventually moved to North America where
he began writing his first book, and he settled in Vancouver, Canada.
Eckhart Tolle philosopy
Eckhart Tolle says that his book, The Power of Now, is "a restatement for our time of that one
timeless spiritual teaching, the essence of all religions" and that religions "have become so
overlaid with extraneous matter that their spiritual substance has become almost completely
obscured", that they have become "to a large extent ... divisive rather than unifying forces" and
become "themselves part of the insanity". "The most significant thing that can happen to a
human being [is] the separation process of thinking and awareness" and that awareness is "the
space in which thoughts exist". Tolle says that "the primary cause of unhappiness is never the
situation but your thoughts about it".
According to Eckhart Tolle's official website, "at the core of Tolle's teachings lies the
transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in