“For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.”

German spiritual teacher and self-help author

Eckhart Tolle is a German spiritual teacher and self-help author, best known for books such as The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, and Guardians of Being. His work focuses on spirituality, presence, and personal awakening. The best-known titles associated with him present those ideas in practical form, from spiritual teaching to reflective self-help and, in the case of Guardians of Being, a picture book.