"Stress is a form of suffering, but..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.
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“If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.”
“With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.”
“Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.”
More on Stress
“When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.”
“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.”
“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”
More on Suffering
“Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.”
“So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.”
“And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.”