Guardians of Being

*Guardians of Being*
Author	Eckhart Tolle
Illustrator	Patrick McDonnell
Cover artist	Patrick McDonnell
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Picture Book
Publisher	New World Library
Media type	Print and pictures
Pages	128
ISBN	ISBN:978-1-57731-671-8
Dewey Decimal	204/.4 22
LC Class	BL624 .T633 2009

Short description: 2009 picture book by Eckhart Tolle

Guardians of Being is a picture book written by Eckhart Tolle, and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell.

Content

Eckhart's official website describes the book as conveying "a profound love of nature, of animals, of humans, of all life-forms [and] celebrates and reminds us of ... the wonder and joy to be found in the present moment, amid the beauty we sometimes forget to notice all around us".^[1]

The book was illustrated by Patrick McDonnell, the artist for the comic strip Mutts.

Reception

Ken MacQueen at Macleans.ca described it as his "thinnest, but perhaps most accessible work, [distilling] Tolle’s teachings into fewer than 1,000 words."^[2] Nick DiMartino at Shelf-Awareness.com said "forgive the book its pretentious, silly name. Otherwise, it's... a gem of a book about the role animals have in our spiritual and mental lives."^[3]