Eckhart Tolle (German pronunciation: [ˈɛk.haʀt ˈtɔlə]; born February 16, 1948) is a German-born spiritual teacher and the author of the best-selling books The Power of Now and A New Earth. His most recent book, Guardians of Being, is a picture book illustrated by Patrick McDonnell, the creator of the comic strip Mutts.
Born Ulrich Leonard Tolle in Lünen, near Dortmund, Germany, Eckhart Tolle lived with his father in Spain from about the age of 13...
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Eckhart Tolle (German pronunciation: [ˈɛk.haʀt ˈtɔlə]; born February 16, 1948) is a German-born spiritual teacher and the author of the best-selling books The Power of Now and A New Earth. His most recent book, Guardians of Being, is a picture book illustrated by Patrick McDonnell, the creator of the comic strip Mutts.
Born Ulrich Leonard Tolle in Lünen, near Dortmund, Germany, Eckhart Tolle lived with his father in Spain from about the age of 13 to 19, approximately between the years 1961 and 1967, after which he moved to the United Kingdom. He had no formal education between the ages of 13 and 22, refusing to go to school because he felt it was a "hostile environment"; instead, he pursued his own interests, such as literature, astronomy, and language.
Tolle graduated from the University of London and entered, but did not complete, a doctoral program at Cambridge University, having studied literature, languages and philosophy. At the age of 29, Tolle experienced what he calls an ...
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