You nailed my big issue with Tolle. He's an absolutist. I couldn't get more than a few pages into his constant harping on the pain-body. If that's not your experience of the world, none of the rest of what he says makes sense. He has some points that are worthy of consideration, but a lot of what he assumes are universal truths are only universal to those who started out with the same worldview he started with. Judging by his popularity, that's a heck of a lot of people. But it's not everyone. And he doesn't allow for that in his pronouncements.