eckhart-tolle Quotes About 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 Able Suffering Realising Affliction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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

Mind Humans Suffering Patterns Collectives Bondage

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“When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.”

Happens Form Suffering Opportunity Realizing Loss Dying Essence Who You Are Identification Great Loss Approaching Death

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“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.”

Ifs Humans Form Suffering Levels Gone Share Havens Empathy Dissolving Human Form

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“Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.”

Humans Action Suffering Quality Lows Stress Arise Human Suffering

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“Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.”

Looks Heart Doe Body Form Suffering Function Stress Your Body Immune Liver Circulation Immune System

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“Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.”

World Form Suffering Normal Stress Accepted Our World

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“Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.”

People Together Suffering Nations Planets Amount Enormous Germany

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

Suffering

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“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.”

Needs Whole Problem Time Suffering Walking Essence Who You Are Edges Absence No Problem Razors Time Of Need

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.”

Ifs Moments Happens Spiritual Suffering Causes Practice Teacher Teaching Identity Function Temporary Hindrance Spiritual Teachers

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“If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Suffering Teacher Teaching Events Ego Minors Dose Spiritual Teaching

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“The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.”

Mind States Whole Moving Form Suffering Movement Ego Unhappiness State Of Mind Back And Forth Flux Moving Back

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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 Want Seems Suffering Noise Unbearable

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“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.”

People Doe Happens Spiritual Suffering Process Awakening Intense Spiritual Awakening

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“Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who have gained everything the world has to offer - who have made it in the eyes of the world - and suddenly find that their success or possessions are empty and unfulfilling.”

People World Made Happens Eye Suffering Loss Offers Empty Possession Made It

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“Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.”

“Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.”

People Mind Spiritual Form Suffering Teaching Cracks Shells Readiness Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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.”

Ifs Needs Mean Stills Enough Moments Suffering Choices Surrender Arise Resistance

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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.”

People World May Important Self Suffering Found Lost Answers Known Pressure Crisis Realization Meaningless Worldly Attainment Sense Of Self

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“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.”

World Seems Happens Purpose Suffering Lost Needed Awakening

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“Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.”

World Believe Ends Seems Happens Spiritual Suffering I Believe Path Teacher Teaching Universal Lifetime Awakening Realization Take Time Unnecessary Spiritual Teachers Spiritual Teaching

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“One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.”

People World Spiritual Suffering Loss Teacher This World Disaster Spiritual Teachers

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“Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick.”

Two Soul Ends Spiritual Night Suffering Dark Teacher Teaching Possibility Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul Spiritual Teaching

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“Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.”

States Action Suffering Causes Differences Acceptance Karma Arise

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“Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.”

Spiritual Suffering Process Grace Teaching Awakening Triggers Readiness Spiritual Teaching

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“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.”

Purpose Suffering Realizing Ego Cracks Shells Unnecessary True Freedom No Compassion Unnecessary Suffering

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others.”

Reality Suffering Humanity Delusion Dogma Sooner Or Later Replaced Falseness

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

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

Needs Suffering Arise

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“A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.”

Thinking Self Suffering Emotion Arise Identification

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“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.”

People Thinking Needs Sometimes Suffering Realizing Ability Emotion Consciousness Awareness Dimensions

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“Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.”

Way Moments Reality Suffering Arguing

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“Stress is a form of suffering.”

Form Suffering Stress

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“My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.”

People World Self Helping Spiritual Purpose Suffering Interest Consciousness This World Awakening Unhappiness Vehicle Unnecessary Spiritual Awakening Flowering Unnecessary Suffering

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“Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.”

People Knows Giving Suffering Humanity Security Strange Prison Cells Collectives Dogma Strange Things Prison Cells

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.”

People May Spiritual Suffering Meditation Teaching Technique Contact Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.”

Thinking Inspirational Able Spiritual Suffering Spirituality Realizing Normal Findings Noise Realms Stillness Affliction Inseparable Incessant

Book:Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

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

Inspirational Pain Joy Suffering Consciousness Positivity Joyful Feeding Joyous Power Of Now Digestion Positive Inspirational Joy And Pain Spiritual Joy

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.”

World Giving Feels Ends Self Spiritual Suffering Safe Expectations Who I Am Make Me Happy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.”

Needs Suffering Live In The Present Time Of Need

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“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.”

Needs Spiritual Suffering Truth Is Ego Distortion Paradoxical

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.”

Ifs Inspirational Would Be Spiritual Suffering Challenges Business Compassion Humility Depth True Freedom No Compassion Stillness Speaks Yes And No

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

Ifs Feels Wells Mean Moments Feelings Suffering Accepting Yoga Arguing That Moment Enlightening Yoga Practice New Earth

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.”

“The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.”

Light Suffering Consciousness Fire Grace

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too”

Ifs Love Life Happiness Success Suffering Attitude Family Habit Creating

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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.”

Ifs Looks States Suffering Acceptance Creating Enthusiasm Enjoyment

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.”

Suffering Ego Distortion

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“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.”

Suffering Causes Situation Cutting Emotional Available Enormous Labels Contractions

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.”

Problem Suffering Unhappy Unhappiness

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

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