"Suffering is necessary until you realize it..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle

“As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.”

“Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.”

“To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.”

“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”

“To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?”

“Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.”

“If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.”

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

“The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.”