And A new earth
: Awakening to your life purpose. In 2011 he was mentioned by Watkins review
as the most spiritually influential person in the world. In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle “the most popular spiritual author in the United States.”
Tolle has said that he was depressed for much of his life until he underwent an “inner transformation” at the age of 29. He then spent several years “in a state of deep bliss” before becoming a spiritual teacher. He later moved to North America, where he began writing his first book, The Power of Now, which was published in 1997 and reached the world. New York Times bestseller
lists from 2000.
The Power of Now and A New Earth sold an estimated three million and five million copies, respectively, in North America in 2009. In 2008, approximately 35 million people participated in a series of 10 live webinars featuring Tolle and TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Tolle is not identified with any particular religion, but he has been influenced by a wide range of spiritual works. He has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia since 1995.
The ten best quotes from Eckart Tolle:
1) The past has no power over the present moment.
2) Some changes may look negative at first glance, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
3) The main cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.
4) Always say yes to the present moment. What is more useless and insane than creating inner resistance to what already is? What could be more insane than to resist life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say yes to life – and watch life suddenly start working for you instead of against you.
5) Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
6) Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment holds, accept it as if you chose it. Always work with it and not against it.
7) You don’t become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only arise when something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.
8) Once you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle disappear and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you portray present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the simplest action.
9) The moment judgment stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the spirit. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
10) When you do not cover the world with words and labels, a sense of the wonderful returns to your life that was lost long ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.