It is Eckart Tolle's personal story. He had reached an extreme low point in his life in his 20s when his life seemed to be entirely made of pointless struggling and suffering with no hope of ever getting better. His feeling that he could not go on became more intense than it ever had on one particular night. I don't want to spoil what happened next, but it is very interesting. You can get his paper or audio book. He has things on the web also.

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