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I think when anyone professes that their answer applies to everything in life, we have a problem. Eckhart Tolle is great but his answer doesn't apply to everything in life. That would mean he found the answer, and there is no answer. There is no answer to life. Everyone has input and there is truth in pretty much everything in life, but I think really the only true answer is balance. And that doesn't really tell anybody much (yet it also says a lot). Enlightenment means that you've reached it...but how can anybody reach a point of not needing to go any further? Knowledge is unlimited, so to say we have reached enlightenment takes away from the mysteries of the universe, and we are simply telling any other knowledge and truth out there that "we have enough, we don't need any more." Tolle has great points, but his truth doesn't take away from truth I have already found in my life. Sure, sometimes we think too much, but never thinking is not the answer because I have had some pretty transcendent moments in thought, and regardless of what that does for my "ego," I know the moment itself was inherently good.