Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Realizing, Unnecessary

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

• 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

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Pain, Positivity

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.37, New World Library

• Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.17, New World Library

• Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Yoga, Mean, Feelings

  "A New Earth". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

• 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

• Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Needs, Able

• The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Ego, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.73, Penguin

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Wisdom, Ego, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.72, Penguin

• When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Loss, Opportunity, Essence

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

• The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Time, Essence, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.52, New World Library

• Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teaching, People

• 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 want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Taken, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.38, New World Library

• True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Moments, Ends

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Life, Family

• Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cutting, Emotional, Suffering

• Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Who I Am, Self

• The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,
  some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
  On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.
  The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

• It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, Suffering, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.221, New World Library

• If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Acceptance, Creating, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

• The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Fire, Grace

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.73, Penguin

• Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Suffering, Affliction

• Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Needs, Live In The Present

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.52, New World Library

• It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Forgiveness, People, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.179, New World Library

• Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Suffering, Purpose

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