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We’re Born Connected To Being

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

CHAPTER

The Power of Suffering

There is a natural connectedness with being which you can see when you look into the eyes of a baby that hasn't learnt language yet. The stream of thinking and conceptualization obscures that deeper essence. So you are destined to lose it, not lose it, but become disconnected from it. And then eventually, because suffering is everybody's spiritual teacher, even if they don't have any other spiritual teacher, suffering brings about an awakening.

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