Who cares who said what or who its attributed to . You seem to be more enamored of personalities and how >you< think things are or should be and have a penchant to try to make it into some sort of intellectualization of everything and you completely miss the boat of any USABLE information being passed on by whomever and whatever means. Just the fact that LIFE has put him in the position he is in and given him such vehicle to reach so many there is something to be learned even if it's just an observation of the direction life is going at the moment.
Tolle like anybody else just happens to be a a "vehicle" no more no less that for whatever irrelevant reason has been given a voice and a means to reach people with a msg on a grand scale irrregardless of what >you< think or attributing to whatever, whomever or some such useless piece of information that just serve as entertaiment and diversion to the actual "doing" or learning of anything useful that is being presented.
There are many things that he sez that I have initially reacted in a ways very similar to what you have expressed here that is until I self observe and get the hell of my own way and look at things on a much grander all encompasing way and just take what resonates for me and use it and move on and not come to public forums like this after just seeing some infinitesimally miniscule little portion of things to make some public pronuoncements that would actually tell more about me than anything else that is actually going on.