I think he has a notion that god is in all things and that is what I also feel at my core = so all my life Christianity has lied to me and greatly damaged my core self by wrapping me in reams of ego around dogma and values and roles which inhabit them!
Tolle suggests consciousness of the past and future to be distractions from reality and the true formless self (due the knowledge of good and bad) whereas animals are far more rooted in the present and will not for example go off telling all the other ducks about the duck on the other side of the pond who just had its missus (lol)- it is past and void and now is the now not to be stressed over!
So all our consciousness is over 90% useless to out present and rarely utilised to improve our NOW zone.
Return harm for harm to no one, let truth set you free, be as a child, forgive past transgressions, spread good news, = all sayings we know which conceptualise what Tolle is saying about the NOW of each of our realities!
Is god in all of us, pantheistically working the hidden will of the divine and bringing us all back to the one, at some future collective intellectual point in time?