I really like your blog Steve, but was dismayed by this article. It seemed defensive and insincere. While I am not an avid fan of Tolle, I find his work interesting, and reading your post made me think that something about Tolle threatens YOUR ego.
This was confirmed even more when you "name-dropped" the Oprah situation, as well as put down his demeanor.
There is something about him that must have hit a nerve, no?
I think I understand why. While your works evoke the sense of a "journey" towards contentment and personal development, his focuses on the LACK of journey, but instead only a journey into nearness, into immediacy. While your blog focuses on goals or ideas that are "out there," he writes there is nothing "out there" needed, because already within this moment, everything is whole and complete.
I find both techniques equally interesting, they are just different. Yet no need to make up things ("war on ego"? ) nor resort to passive aggressive behavior... |