Eckhart Tolle On Pain And Addiction
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Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge, and at the age of 29 experienced what he considered a spiritual transformation that marked the beginning of his life as a counselor and spiritual teacher. He is author of The Power of Now and Oprah's Book Club selection A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose.
By Eckhart Tolle
Published on 04/2/2008
Alcohol and drug abuse is often an attempt at escape from the pain-body.. an escape of not wanting to feel the pain anymore. In some people, the pain-body is active almost all the time, and that is dreadful way to live. And those people.. often they will seek some kind of escape from it because they can't live with that pain anymore. Their chance of awakening is also quite great.