Eckhart Tolle (German pronunciation: [ˈɛk.haʀt ˈtɔlə], born February 16, 1948) is a German public speaker and teacher on spirituality and the author of two bestselling books, The Power of Now and A New Earth.
Born Ulrich Leonard Tolle in Lünen, near Dortmund, Germany, it has been reported that Tolle's name change from Ulrich to Eckhart was due to his admiration of the German philosopher Meister Eckhart. When Tolle was 13 years old he moved to Spa...
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Eckhart Tolle (German pronunciation: [ˈɛk.haʀt ˈtɔlə], born February 16, 1948) is a German public speaker and teacher on spirituality and the author of two bestselling books, The Power of Now and A New Earth.
Born Ulrich Leonard Tolle in Lünen, near Dortmund, Germany, it has been reported that Tolle's name change from Ulrich to Eckhart was due to his admiration of the German philosopher Meister Eckhart. When Tolle was 13 years old he moved to Spain to live with his father.
Tolle attended primary schools until the age of 13. From then until the age of 22, he had no formal education. Tolle felt that formal education was a "hostile environment" and preferred to study literature, astronomy and language on his own. He graduated from the University of London but did not complete his doctoral program when he attended Cambridge University. Tolle was a student of literature, languages and philosophy.
At the age of 29, Tolle experienced an "inner transformation" after suffering long periods of...
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