Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle( Ulrich Leonard Thölle) is a German-born Canadian, best known for his authorship of Powers Today and A New Earth: Awakening the Purpose of Life. In 2011, he was named the world's most spiritually influential person by Watkins Review.

Ulrich Leonard Thölle was born in 1948 in Lunen, a small town north of Dortmund in the Ruhr region of Germany. Growing up in post-war Germany, he felt fear and anxiety, where he played in buildings that had been bombed. He later said that the pain was "in the country's energy sector."

At the age of 13, Tolle, who moved to Spain to live with his father, who did not insist on going to high school, decided to study literature, astronomy and languages at home. At the age of 15 he was "greatly influenced" by the five spiritual books of the German mystic Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken.

On the recommendation of Oprah Winfrey, his first book, Power of the Present, made it to the New York Times bestseller list in 2000. The same thing happened in his 2005 book New Earth.

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