Touching the Eternal

Honoring the Evolutionary Impulse to Realize Our Essential NatureBefore there was darkness or light or the universe itself, there was stillness. Beyond time, space, and form—beyond birth and death—it continues. And this is who you are in your most essential nature. With Touching the Eternal, join Eckhart Tolle on retreat in India to rediscover the universal destination charted by the world’s wisdom traditions: the possibility of awakening to the truths beyond words. Transcending Conventional Ideas of Time and Self Reminding us not to “mistake the map for the territory,” Eckhart shares here many of his hallmark pointers to presence. By surrendering to the present moment, we find that awakening is not something to be achieved in the future—it is within us right now. Illuminating common struggles of the spiritual seeker, Eckhart helps us release compulsive thinking, resistance to the now, addiction to suffering, and limiting “spiritual” beliefs. In the awakened state of consciousness, he