His skewed view of both God and man pollutes his view of everything else.
What was the point in continuing to live with this burden of misery? What is this whole book, but words and thinking? By making the present moment their friend and by honoring rather than denying it.
In fact, Tolle posits that there is no real time, only an illusion of it 205.
Buddhism teaches that the mind is in the way of enlightenment, and the meditation teachings about breath are a way to let go of thinking.