Eckhart Tolle: Awakening to Your Life´s Purpose

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Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany on February 16, 1948. Much of his early childhood is described by him as an unhappy time, where he frequently struggled with depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and the "pain in the energy field of the country" [1]. By the age of 13, with his parents separated, Eckhart moved to Spain to live with his father. As his father did not insist on mandatory attendance of school, Tolle took the opportunity to self-study at home. During this time, he read through several books written by the German mystic Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, of which, he says, had a deep impact on him.
At 19, Tolle moved to the UK where he spent the next 3 years teaching German and Spanish at a language school in London. By 22, he had made the decision to pursue "the truth", relative to intellect and thinking, and began this search by studying philosophy, psychology and literature at the University of London. After his graduation in 1977, he was given a research position at the University of Cambridge. It was during this time that he had an epiphany: his own personal awakening. After a lifetime of depression and the internal struggle for answers, he had finally been able to find his peace. Of it, he says: "I didn’t 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." [2] This epiphany is the foundation of the principles of which he's gone on to write about. He then began work as a counselor and spiritual teacher for a few years, before his final move to Vancouver, British Columbia.
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...e – of the present, future and mother. The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved on 2010-2-2.
[2] Claire Scobie (2003-08-31). Why now is bliss. Telegraph Magazine. Retrieved on 2010-2-2.
[] Eckhart Tolle. n.d. Wikipedia. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
[] Ether Walker (2008-06-21). Eckhart Tolle: This man could change your life. The Independent.
[] Eckhart Tolle Biography. New York Times (2008-03-05). Times Topics.
[] Fred Tracy. n.d. Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth Book Review/Commentary. Retrieved November 4, 2013. http://www.fredtracy.com/eckhart-tolles-a-new-earth-book-reviewcommentary/
[] Joseph Waligore. n.d. Eckhard Tolle. Retrieved November 4, 2013. http://www.spiritualcritiques.com/author-criticisms/eckhart-tolle/
[] Greg Boyd. n.c. Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" Book Review. Retrieved November 2, 2013. http://gregboyd.blogspot.ca/2008/04/echhart-tolles-new-earth-book-review.html

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