Suffering Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

— Eckhart Tolle

Stress is a form of suffering.

— Eckhart Tolle

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

— Eckhart Tolle

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

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Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

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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.

— Eckhart Tolle

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.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

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

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

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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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My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of…

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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…

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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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Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness…

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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…

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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…

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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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True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with…

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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming…

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

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

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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in…

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