Eckhart Tolle

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

Eckhart Tolle

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn’t.

Eckhart Tolle

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

Eckhart Tolle

Struggle or stress is a sign that the ego has returned, as are negative reactions when we encounter obstacles.

Eckhart Tolle

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous.

Eckhart Tolle

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

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

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Eckhart Tolle

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Eckhart Tolle

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, ‘Why is this happening to me?’

Eckhart Tolle