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<blockquote data-quote="New Leaf" data-source="post: 678515" data-attributes="member: 19522"><p>Copa, this is what I found when reading about Eckhart Tolle. It has never ceased to amaze me that this brilliant man dropped out of school and spent two years couch surfing and sitting on a bench people watching and..thinking......</p><p><a href="https://www.eckharttolle.com/article/Eckhart-Tolle-Oprah-Winfreys-Favorite-Guru" target="_blank">https://www.eckharttolle.com/article/Eckhart-Tolle-Oprah-Winfreys-Favorite-Guru</a></p><p></p><p>"Tolle's transformative experience, which happened in 1979, didn't lead to instant global stardom: commercialising his insights was apparently the furthest thing from his mind. Instead, he embarked on a doctorate in Latin American literature at Cambridge. But it felt meaningless; he dropped out after a year. He spent the next two years in London, sleeping on friends' sofas, and spending the days on park benches in Russell Square, or sheltering in the British Library. When money ran out, he took a temp job doing office admin for the Kennel Club. "Externally, one would have said 'this person is completely lost'," he says. "My mother was very upset, because in her view, I had thrown everything away. And from a logical point of view, that looked quite correct." His father helped him pay for a flat, and he began to run small group teaching sessions in friends' living-rooms. But there were many more years to come of what looked, from the outside, like drifting - including a long spell on the west coast of the United States, where he started to write The Power of Now.</p><p></p><p>I thought this was extremely interesting.........what his parents must have gone through at the time........they must have thought he was off his rocker........</p><p></p><p>(((HUGS)))</p><p>leafy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="New Leaf, post: 678515, member: 19522"] Copa, this is what I found when reading about Eckhart Tolle. It has never ceased to amaze me that this brilliant man dropped out of school and spent two years couch surfing and sitting on a bench people watching and..thinking...... [URL]https://www.eckharttolle.com/article/Eckhart-Tolle-Oprah-Winfreys-Favorite-Guru[/URL] "Tolle's transformative experience, which happened in 1979, didn't lead to instant global stardom: commercialising his insights was apparently the furthest thing from his mind. Instead, he embarked on a doctorate in Latin American literature at Cambridge. But it felt meaningless; he dropped out after a year. He spent the next two years in London, sleeping on friends' sofas, and spending the days on park benches in Russell Square, or sheltering in the British Library. When money ran out, he took a temp job doing office admin for the Kennel Club. "Externally, one would have said 'this person is completely lost'," he says. "My mother was very upset, because in her view, I had thrown everything away. And from a logical point of view, that looked quite correct." His father helped him pay for a flat, and he began to run small group teaching sessions in friends' living-rooms. But there were many more years to come of what looked, from the outside, like drifting - including a long spell on the west coast of the United States, where he started to write The Power of Now. I thought this was extremely interesting.........what his parents must have gone through at the time........they must have thought he was off his rocker........ (((HUGS))) leafy [/QUOTE]
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