"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.
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“Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”
“Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.”
“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?”
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“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.”
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”
“One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.”
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“Sure, there are plenty of ways to waste this day. But you now have the chance to choose to make good and valuable use of it.Now is an opportunity to create value. And that opportunity cannot be delayed until later.Now is yours to use for whatever rich and fulfilling purpose you can imagine. Stand up, step forward, and get busy making the very best of now.”
“Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.”
“The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.”