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Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Suffering

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Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Suffering, Unhappiness, Arise

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.120, New World Library

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

Ego, Suffering, Purpose

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Wisdom, Ego, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.72, Penguin

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Suffering, Realizing, Unnecessary

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

Creating, Suffering, Looks

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.221, New World Library

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

Suffering, Needs, Able

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

Time, Essence, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.52, New World Library

Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.

Thinking, People, Suffering

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If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

Acceptance, Creating, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

Spiritual, People, Suffering

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The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Spiritual, Ego, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.73, Penguin

Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

Cutting, Emotional, Suffering

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

Thinking, Suffering, Affliction

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Alchemist, Suffering, Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.218, New World Library

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Ego, Suffering, Cracks

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

Suffering, Purpose, World

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Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.

Thinking, Suffering, Want

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Mind, Suffering, Patterns

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Empathy, Suffering, Gone

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After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

Self, People, Suffering

Source: home.online.nl

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Forgiveness, People, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.179, New World Library

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Suffering, Needs, Arise

Source: rayhemachandra.com

You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't need to suffer anymore," and you understand them. You recognize their truth and you then see that you do have a choice that you can surrender to the suchness of now, which means every moment to relinquish resistance and if it still arises, to recognize it.

Mean, Choices, Suffering

Source: www.soulwise.net

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.

Suffering

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Stress is a form of suffering.

Stress, Suffering, Form

Source: rayhemachandra.com

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