A Modest Clarification To WhiteGoldGlove's Criticism of Eckart Tolle
Channel: Integrative Gnosis
Date: 2011-12-31

You are so close... yet so far!
Open your mind, rest in effortless awareness, and try to spot the workings of your thoughts.
It fights against your enlightenment - which is its demise - by keeping you from going all the way to the truth pointed at by Tolle.
He is helping however he can - and his own way is to spread enlightenment. You criticize him as self-interested - then why would he care and try to help other people? Why would he try to liberate others from suffering?
But your mind does not allow you to see it. It is identified with thought - and its position becomes incredibly shaky as you come closer to revealing its falseness - you agree and understand Tolle so much, but then a random opposition comes it: "Tolle should not be teaching people to stop suffering! He should help starving kids and amputees, that's what he should do! How egoist is it to seek only liberation from suffering for oneself and others?"
Realize that through liberation from suffering, one is freed to thrive, lovingly, without fear or limitations. One is suddenly unchained from the egotic ways of the mind that create suffering - not only for oneself, but for other beings as well.
Your ego does not want you to see that. It wants you to bear the weight of the world before even letting you become an Atlas. You will be crushed by this.
You should actually see your own stance as a warning of the trap you are falling into. Why do you want to control Tolle's teachings? Why do you want to impose your own truth on him? Let him be, and follow your own path. And at some point, because you go on and on suffering  - your ego never let you make the last step - you will realize how you still live with conflict, as a creator of suffering for others, because this is what the nightmare of egotic consciousness is. Then I wish you will come back to this, see how close you were to the last step - and attain your own liberation of suffering. You deserve it.

Metta.