Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• Is suffering really necessary?
  Yes and no.
  If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Business

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

• True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Reading, Humility

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

• 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 to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Teacher, Pain

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.177, New World Library

• 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 she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.92, New World Library

• Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Compassion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.196, New World Library

• The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Kindness, Mean, Heart

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

• Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Spiritual, Fear

  "Relationships – True Love and the Transcendence of Duality". www.eckharttolle.com.

• Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Compassion, Events, Matter

• When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Compassion, Self, Inner Peace

  "Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness". Interview With Steve Donoso, thesunmagazine.org. July, 2002.

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