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Suffering Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

71 Suffering quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle describes stress as a form of suffering that grips the body and mind. He encourages accepting whatever feeling arises, seeing it as part of the present moment, and recognizing that compulsive thinking fuels more pain. He also mentions that enlightenment ends suffering, and some awaken without any practice.

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Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

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The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

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Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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Stress is a form of suffering.

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

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You can't argue with what is… Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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;…

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“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful…

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You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely…

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Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with…

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“all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more…

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The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level…

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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…

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Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality…

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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from…

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Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict…

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True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel…

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“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the…

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

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

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

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

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

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Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and…

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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…

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

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When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

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Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

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Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

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