Eckhart Tolle reflects on why books matter despite their fragility, tracing their enduring value through history. He examines classical texts like the Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations to show how literature survives and transforms readers across centuries.
It's miraculous because a book is a very fragile thing. And for many centuries it could only survive if there were always people who valued it enough to copy it again, and then a few more copies, and then they got damaged and burned, and then one copy survived, and then some other people saw how valuable it is. They could sense the. There was something transformative in it, and so they copied it again. So books such as the Tao Te Ching or the Bhagavad Gita. One of my favorite books, the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 2000 years old.
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