Originally Posted by
failedtaper 
If the point is that you need a "guru", then Tolle is probably not your man. He never claims to be one in the books, not that I can recall anyway.
I don't much care whether Tolle sets a personal example or not anyway. Maybe he wasn't the first to describe the "ego", but he makes the concepts more user-friendly than Freud, and the point that NOW is all we ever have was not lost on me.
FT
I felt the point he was making is that he came to his "spiritual awakening" by a profound experience. Could he have achieved what he has "spiritually" or in terms of enlightenment (whatever word you want to use) if he had to do it solely by the way he explains to the rest of us? It's a good point IMO - but I agree FT. He has opened me up to the "fact" (for me) that the only thing that truly exists is right now and that is all that ever matters.