That night he awakened from his sleep, suffering from feelings of depression that were "almost unbearable," but then experienced a life-changing epiphany. One night in 1977, at the age of 29, after having suffered from long periods of depression, Tolle says he experienced an "inner transformation". After attending the University of London, he enrolled in a postgraduate program at the University of Cambridge in 1977. When he was 19, Tolle moved to England and taught German and Spanish for three years at a London language school. At 15, he was "heavily influenced" by a gift of the five spiritual books by the German mystic Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken. In 1961 he moved to Spain to live with his father, where he "refused all forms of formal education between the ages of 13 and 22, preferring instead to pursue his own creative and philosophical interests". Ulrich Leonard Tölle was born in Lünen, a small town north of Dortmund in the Ruhr region of Germany in 1948. His books include The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997), A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005) and the picture book Guardians of Being (2009). Eckhart Tolle ( / ˈ ɛ k ɑːr t ˈ t ɒ l ə/ EK-art TOL-ə German: born Ulrich Leonard Tölle, February 16, 1948) is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author.
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