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Eckhart Tolle (/ / EK-art TO-l; German pronunciation: [kat tl], born Ulrich Leonard Tolle on February 16, 1948) is a German-born resident of Canada,[1] best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world.[2] In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States."[3]
Tolle has said that he was depressed for much of his life until he underwent, at age 29, an "inner transformation". He then spent several years wandering and unemployed "in a state of deep bliss" before becoming a spiritual teacher. Later, he moved to North America where he began writing his first book, The Power of Now, which was published in 1997[4] and reached the New York Times Best Seller lists in 2000.[5] Tolle settled in Vancouver, Canada, where he has lived for more than a decade.
The Power of Now and A New Earth sold an estimated three million and five million copies respectively in North America by 2009.[6] In 2008, approximately 35 million people participated in a series of 10 live webinars with Tolle and television talk show host Oprah Winfrey.[6] Tolle is not identified with any particular religion, but he has been influenced by a wide range of spiritual works.[7]
Born Ulrich Leonard Tolle in Lnen, a small town located north of Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley, Germany in 1948,[3][8][9] Tolle describes his childhood as unhappy, particularly his early childhood in Germany. There, his parents fought and eventually separated, and he felt alienated from a hostile school environment.[10] While playing in buildings destroyed by Allied bombs during World War Two, Tolle felt depressed by his experience of "pain in the energy field of the country".[11] At the age of 13, he moved to Spain to live with his father.[10] Tolle's father did not insist that his son attend high school, and so Tolle elected to study literature, astronomy and language at home.[8][10]
At the age of fifteen Tolle read several books written by the German mystic Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, also known as B Yin R. Tolle has said he responded "very deeply" to those books.[10]
At the age of 19, Tolle moved to England and for three years taught German and Spanish at a London school for language studies.[12] Troubled by "depression, anxiety and fear", he began "searching for answers" in his life.[10] At age 22 or so he decided to pursue this search by studying philosophy, psychology, and literature, and enrolled in the University of London.[10] After graduating[10] he was offered a scholarship to do postgraduate research at Cambridge University which he began in 1977.[7][8]
One night in 1977, at the age of 29, after having suffered from long periods of suicidal depression, Tolle says he experienced an "inner transformation."[7] That night he awakened from his sleep, suffering from feelings of depression that were "almost unbearable," but then experienced a life-changing epiphany.[10] Recounting the experience, Tolle says,
I couldnt live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the I that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! I didnt know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or beingness, just observing and watching.[12]
Tolle recalls going out for a walk in London the next morning, and finding that everything was miraculous, deeply peaceful. Even the traffic."[10] The feeling continued, and he began to feel a strong underlying sense of peace in any situation.[6] Tolle stopped studying for his doctorate, and for a period of about two years after this he spent much of his time sitting, in a state of deep bliss," on park benches in Russell Square, Central London, "watching the world go by. He stayed with friends, in a Buddhist monastery, or otherwise slept rough on Hampstead Heath. His family thought him irresponsible, even insane."[12] Tolle changed his first name from Ulrich to Eckhart; by some reports this was in homage to the German philosopher and mystic, Meister Eckhart,[8][9][13] although according to other reports he was drawn to that name coincidentally.[14]
After this period, former Cambridge students and people he had met by chance began to ask Tolle about his beliefs. He began working as a counselor and spiritual teacher.[7] Students continued to come to him over the next five years. He relocated to Glastonbury, a major centre of alternative living.[12] In 1995, after having visited the West Coast of North America several times, he settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he met his wife to be, Kim Eng.[7][10][15][16]
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Un Nou Pamant Eckhart Tolle Oprah Winfrey partea 1 – Video
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Eckhart Tolle on Nisargadatta Maharaj – Video
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Eckhart Tolle on Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Beloved Spiritual Author Eckhart Tolle Brings His Transformational Message To the Big Screen – Video
Posted: October 21, 2013 at 8:45 am
Beloved Spiritual Author Eckhart Tolle Brings His Transformational Message To the Big Screen
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Michele Penn found her purpose after going through 15 years of domestic abuse until one day she #39;d had enough! In this interview she shares her story, her hea...
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Beloved Spiritual Author Eckhart Tolle Brings His Transformational Message To the Big Screen
Posted: October 17, 2013 at 2:42 pm
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Best known for his ground-breaking, New York Times bestselling books, The Power of Now and A New Earth and recognized for his regular appearances on Oprah -- Eckhart Tolle -- is now bringing his spiritual message to the big screen with the supporting sponsorship of The Dalai Lama Center. MILTONS SECRET stars Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner, Peter Fonda and will be directed by Barnet Bain (What Dreams May Come).
Vancouver-based Hulo Films have teamed with Eckhart Tolle to create a progressive story about mindfulness and compassion in an equally progressive way, turning to Indiegogo's crowdfunding platform to protect the integrity of the message.
"Milton's Secret matters because the world can be a scary place. Now is the moment for new images and models to meet the stresses and challenges of our increasingly chaotic world," explains Bain, who also co-wrote the script.
Hulo Producer, Stephen Huszar adds, "Were making a different kind of film in a different kind of way. We are fortunate to be associated with thought leaders like Eckhart Tolle and organizations such as The Dalai Lama Center with this new form of audience engagement allowing fans the opportunity to get involved with something that matters to them."
Tolle is a film lover who has spent time talking to Hollywood on the merits of using film to expand awareness and transform consciousness. According to Tolle, "Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies-- every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective stories and there is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness."
For more information or to contribute to the Miltons Secret crowdfunding campaign, please visit: SupportMiltonsSecret.com.
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MILTONS SECRET is a coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy growing up in an economically depressed suburb, and the elder quest of his grandfather. His mother and father are workaholics with marital and financial problems, and he is being bullied at school. When his grandfather visits, Milton learns that rehashing the past and worrying about the future are preventing him from finding true happiness in the Now.
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Spending ‘No Time’ with Eckhart Tolle – Part III – Video
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Eckhart Tolle acknowledges Barry Long as a powerful teacher – Video
Posted: October 10, 2013 at 12:42 pm
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Eckhart Tolle: Asilomar Part 4 - Facing Challenges
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