{"id":449,"date":"2009-05-25T05:03:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T05:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/fresh-morning-eckhart-tolle-on-being-yourself.html"},"modified":"2009-05-25T05:03:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T05:03:16","slug":"fresh-morning-eckhart-tolle-on-being-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/fresh-morning-eckhart-tolle-on-being-yourself.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: Eckhart Tolle on Being Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span>&#8220;The only thing that can fulfill you is being yourself and that&#8217;s inseparable from now, the field of now. 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