Eckhart Tolle … to a point

When I first started listening to Anthony de Mello I noticed a small note on YouTube where the person who had uploaded the audio books had written “like Eckhart Tolle”.

I had never heard of the man but only light digging was required. He is called by some the number one Spiritual Teacher of our times but despite that I had managed to get through a good forty+ years of my life without hearing his name.

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Can you be enlightened and care or be passionate?

This seems to be an often asked question. If you are no longer attached to things, be they events or material objects, in order for them to bring you happiness does this mean that you don’t care about them?

If you don’t need to achieve a certain goal in your life in order to be happy can you be passionate about that goal?

When we look at enlightened people they seem to be very chilled out. Can you only achieve this state if you don’t care and haven’t passion?

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