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Pain Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

43 Pain quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Pain pops up when we try to ignore the present moment. The quotes link pain to addiction and say that unprocessed hurt leaves a lingering residue inside us. They also point out that the ego can break down when pain gets too intense, opening a space without illusion.

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You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

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

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Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

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

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Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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

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

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

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As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a…

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

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

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

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You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures…

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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.…

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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain,…

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The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of…

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There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives…

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Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the…

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You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.…

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When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism…

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Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from…

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“In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find…

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All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words…

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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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So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be…

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“The pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is…

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Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it…

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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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“A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite and…

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“The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot…

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“The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to…

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There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher.…

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If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and…

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Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends…

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In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no…

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A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain…

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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not…

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“But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and…

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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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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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