Breathing Quote by Christmas Humphreys

“If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating suffering for others too. These unconscious mind patterns tend…

— Eckhart Tolle

Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate and profound…

— Sharon Salzberg

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

— Dalai Lama

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and…

— Anonymous

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

— Eckhart Tolle

“The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation--the state…

— L.M.Blanchard

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

— Eckhart Tolle

All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague…

— Francisco Varela

“The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

— Timothy Keller

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself,…

— James Allen

“With concentration on nonself—the reality that we do not have a separate self—we become aware that suffering is there not only in us but…

— Thich Nhat Hanh