Francois Coetzee
2 min readNov 5, 2021

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I appreciate that you are trying to move forward in your spiritual development, and your experience of Eckhart Tolle as a teacher is a valid one for where you are on your journey.

What would be interesting is to explain how you came to choose him as a teacher. There are many paths to the top of a mountain, but the path you choose is the one whose obstacles you have to overcome and the learnings you have to live with.

Spiritual paths appear to us as we become ready to walk it, but if you choose a path because it seems "popular", you may be limiting and even set back your own progress and it may be years before you become ready for the path you should follow. Denigrating a certain path because you are not comfortable with it does not do you any good.

It is my opinion that you are taking lessons that sometimes take years in learning and living with, and reducing it to superficial cliches. By ridiculing the teachings of a teacher you may be closing down any value and growth that could appear at a different stage of your spiritual development.

For example, the philosophy developed by Viktor Frankl supports a lot of what Eckhart Tolle say. He was a man that saw and experienced some of the most of the horrific cruelty and abuse that humans could visit on each other. His message is clear:

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

If you are a reader, I recommend his book, Man's Search for Meaning.

If Eckard Tolle does not resonate with you, maybe you are on a path that does not fit you and there may be some wisdom in looking in a different direction.

As Viktor Frankl states:

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

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Francois Coetzee
Francois Coetzee

Written by Francois Coetzee

Francois Coetzee is a creative thinker, NLP trainer and coach, and lives for creating possibility. Connect with him on LinkedIn https://bit.ly/3hEmVAn

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