Quotes by Suffering The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen. Eckhart Tolle purposesufferingworld 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 egopurposesuffering For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering. Eckhart Tolle sufferingspiritualpeople Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver. Eckhart Tolle stresssufferingheart Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will survive and be strong. They will lead those who are helpless, in many ways, to suffer. Edwin Hodge strongsufferingclass When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering. Eckhart Tolle empathysufferinggone Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion. Eckhart Tolle sufferingpeoplethinking When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now. Eckhart Tolle problemunhappysuffering The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it. Edwin O. Reischauer democracyrealsuffering There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize. Edwidge Danticat empathysufferingpeople If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. Edward Abbey ancestorsufferingdream Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon miserysufferingsympathy I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end. Edward Snowden government-spyinginformationsuffering Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it. Eglantyne Jebb knowingsufferingchildren Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton vanitypainsuffering Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering. Eiji Yoshikawa shadowsufferingdoubt I think Trump is indicative of a larger problem. It existed way before him, it is our generation's issue that all over the world people are and have been suffering from despotic power figures who want nothing more to control than help the people they claim to represent. The difference being is a lot of people had not been paying much attention prior because it wasn't directly impacting them. El-P sufferingpeoplethinking I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it. El Greco sufferingpraiseart You are the light of the world. You are the Eckhart Tolle lightsufferingworld ... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons. Eckhart Tolle patternssufferingmind«4950515253545556575859»
