Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany where he spent the first 13 years of his life. After graduating the University of London, Eckhart Tolle was a research scholar and supervisor at Cambridge University. At the age of 29, as Eckhart Tolle was on his way to completing his doctorate at Cambridge, a profound spiritual transformation virtually dissolved his identity and radically changed the course of his life when Eckhart Tolle awoke to the reality of his true Being. "Most of the world is lost in doing. I got lost in Being."

The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. For the past 10 years Eckhart Tolle has been a counselor and spiritual teacher, working with individuals and small groups in Europe and North America. Now fifty years old, Eckhart Tolle lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he shares his insights with the growing number of people who seek him out for his inspirational message.

ECKHART TOLLE EXCERPTS FROM:
SELF-MASTERY. A JOURNEY HOME TO YOUR SELF
A TEXTBOOK FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM

"If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful SELF mastery tool that
keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living."

ECKHART TOLLE

I HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE MIND OR MASTERY?

"Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness.
Without it, I have no choice. Choice begins the moment I dis-identify from my mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment I become Self-present.
Until I reach that point, I'm unconscious, spiritually speaking.
This means that I'm compelled to think, feel,
and act in certain ways according to the conditioning of my mind.
Nobody consciously chooses dis-function, conflict, and pain.
Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because
there isn't enough conscious Self-presence to dissolve the past,
not enough light to dispel the darkness.
I'm never fully here in the now because I'm either time binding with the past or the future. I have not quite woken up, meaning I'm not fully
Self-conscious yet. In the meantime, my conditioned mind is running my life.
As long as my mind (with its conditioned patterns) runs my life,
what choice do I have? NONE!
I'm not even there yet, and I won't be there until I become Self-conscious.
THE MIND-IDENTIFIED STATE IS SEVERELY DIS-FUNCTIONAL.
It is a form of socially acceptable insanity. Almost everyone is suffering
from this illness in varying degrees. The moment I realize this,
there can be no more resentment or guilt.
How can I resent someone's illness or my own?
If I'm primarily run by my mind, I will suffer the consequences of my mind identification, and I'll create further suffering for myself and my loved ones.
I will bear the burden of fear, conflict, problems, and pain.
The suffering that I'm creating is my mind's false attempt
to make me feel safe by ignoring, denying,
or repressing that which I'm experiencing."

ECKHART TOLLE

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