Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle is the author of The Power of Now and has been referred to by The New York Times as “the most popular spiritual author in the nation.” Born in Germany, he now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
— From May 2015Lost In Thought
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
May 2015The Greatest Obstacle To Enlightenment
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.
July 2002