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Guardians of Being
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11 August 2026

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.
“I have lived with many Zen masters, all of them cats.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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 heartwarming page provokes thought, insight, and smiling reverence for all beings and each moment. Guardians of Being reminds us of the oneness of all life as well as the wonder and joy to be found in the present, amid the beauty we sometimes forget to notice all around us.
— 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
Eckhart Tolle, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, speaks and teaches extensively throughout the world.
eckharttolle.com
MUTTS creator Patrick McDonnell has more than twenty books in print.
mutts.com