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For the first time in more than 15 years, this beloved collection of Eckhart Tolle’s spiritual teachings and Patrick McDonnell’s heartwarming illustrations is back in a beautiful hardcover edition.
This wonderfully unique collaboration brings together two masters of their fields, joining original words by spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle with delightful illustrations by Patrick McDonnell, the creator of the acclaimed comic strip MUTTS. Every uplifting page provokes thought, insight, and smiling reverence for all beings and each moment.
More than a charming collection of witty drawings and captions, the marriage of Patrick McDonnell’s art and Eckhart Tolle’s words is an enlightening journey through their shared love of nature, of animals, of humans, of all life-forms. Guardians of Being celebrates and reminds us not only of the oneness of all life but of the wonder and joy to be found in the present moment, amid the beauty we sometimes forget to notice all around us.
Uplifting and deeply reassuring, this pairing of profound insight and playful humor invites spiritual seekers, animal lovers, and readers of all ages to recognize the wisdom of the presence and uncomplicated joy embodied by our animal companions.
This wonderfully unique collaboration brings together two masters of their fields, joining original words by spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle with delightful illustrations by Patrick McDonnell, the creator of the acclaimed comic strip MUTTS. Every uplifting page provokes thought, insight, and smiling reverence for all beings and each moment.
More than a charming collection of witty drawings and captions, the marriage of Patrick McDonnell’s art and Eckhart Tolle’s words is an enlightening journey through their shared love of nature, of animals, of humans, of all life-forms. Guardians of Being celebrates and reminds us not only of the oneness of all life but of the wonder and joy to be found in the present moment, amid the beauty we sometimes forget to notice all around us.
Uplifting and deeply reassuring, this pairing of profound insight and playful humor invites spiritual seekers, animal lovers, and readers of all ages to recognize the wisdom of the presence and uncomplicated joy embodied by our animal companions.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 128
Publisher: New World Library
Imprint: New World Library
Publication Date:
11 August 2026
Trim Size: 6.75 X 8.25 in
ISBN: 9781955831376
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth, Domestic animals & pets, SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General, PETS / Dogs / General, Funny cartoons and comic strips
“An inspired collaboration between spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and comic strip artist Patrick McDonnell. . . . A book to make you wriggle with joy.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
“A lovely meditation on the power and grace animals bring to our lives.”
— The Bark
“Eckhart Tolle and Patrick McDonnell fans will rejoice over Guardians of Being, the combined effort of these bestselling authors. This beautiful, thought-provoking, and enlightening book pairs Tolle’s Power of Now mindfulness with McDonnell’s beloved MUTTS characters, showing how we can find ‘true happiness in simple, seemingly unremarkable things’ by simply being present, a state that our dogs naturally occupy.”
— Modern Dog
“This is a book likely to speak to dog lovers, cat lovers, art lovers, spiritual seekers, those who like to read, those who don’t like to read, and pretty much anyone interested in the art of life.”
— The Christian Science Monitor
— O, The Oprah Magazine
“A lovely meditation on the power and grace animals bring to our lives.”
— The Bark
“Eckhart Tolle and Patrick McDonnell fans will rejoice over Guardians of Being, the combined effort of these bestselling authors. This beautiful, thought-provoking, and enlightening book pairs Tolle’s Power of Now mindfulness with McDonnell’s beloved MUTTS characters, showing how we can find ‘true happiness in simple, seemingly unremarkable things’ by simply being present, a state that our dogs naturally occupy.”
— Modern Dog
“This is a book likely to speak to dog lovers, cat lovers, art lovers, spiritual seekers, those who like to read, those who don’t like to read, and pretty much anyone interested in the art of life.”
— The Christian Science Monitor
Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Power of Now and A New Earth. He lives in Vancouver, Canada. Patrick McDonnell, the creator of MUTTS, has more than twenty books in print, including the New York Times bestsellers The Gift of Nothing and Hug Time. He lives in New Jersey.
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