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Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Pain

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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Pain, Joy, Mindfulness

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

Pain, Moving, Addiction

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

Letting Go, Teacher, Pain

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.177, New World Library

Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present....Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.

Running, Spiritual, Pain

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Pain, Degrees, Resistance

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.33, New World Library

As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.

Pain, Long, Problem

So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.

Pain, Loneliness, Grief

Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

Pain, Taken, Thinking

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.38, New World Library

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

Spiritual, Pain, Past

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.92, New World Library

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

Pain, Freedom, Long

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.74, New World Library

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Relationship, Pain, Causes

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.89, New World Library

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Pain, Anger, Criminal Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.40, New World Library

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Inspirational, Pain, Positivity

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.37, New World Library

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

Spiritual, Pain, Emotional

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.36, New World Library

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Pain, Long, Identity

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

Pain, Simple, Choices

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.65, New World Library

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Running, Spiritual, Pain

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.33, New World Library

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

Pain, Empathy, Desire

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.203, New World Library

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

Pain, Addiction, Cover Ups

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Pain, Joy, Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.154, New World Library

There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

Pain, Past, Thinking

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.32, New World Library

Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.

Pain, Grace, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.31, New World Library

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

Pain, Light, Flames

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

Pain, Identity, Body

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.37, New World Library

Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.

Pain, Emotional, Thinking

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.81, New World Library

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