Humanity is destined to go beyond suffering, but not in the way the ego thinks. One of the egos many erroneous assumptions, one of its many deluded thoughts is I should not have to suffer. Sometimes the thought gets tranferred to someone close to you: My child should not have to suffer. That thought itself lies at the root of suffering. Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.... When you accept suffering, however, there is an acceleration of that process which is brought about by the fact that you suffer consciously. You can accept suffering for yourself, or you can accept it for someone else, such as your child or parent. In the midst of conscious suffering there is already the transmutation. The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness. The ego says, I shouldnt have to suffer, and the thought that makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:14:09 +0000