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Pain Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
- The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with…
- There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your…
- [Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you
- Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.
- Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you…
- Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment
- All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create…
- Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and…
- Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and…
- As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.
- As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.
- The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
- As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain…
- Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.
- There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them…
- Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever…
- To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation,…
- The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
- Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could…
- If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as…
- Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.
- Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let…
- Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the…
- Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
- You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your…
More Pain Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila