“So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.”

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.