A short spoken excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s YouTube talk, reflecting on impermanence and how suffering on the surface level of existence can act as a catalyst for awakening to a deeper sense of identity. The speaker notes that most humans are 'lost' at the surface level and that pain may be necessary for coming to consciousness.
The impermanence that is, that governs this level of existence here. And so if you lose yourself in that, then you find suffering. But, and, and of course, most humans are lost on the surface level of existence. And however miraculously, the suffering that then arises potentially can bring about an awakening to the deeper level of your identity. The suffering potentially is the awakener. That's why Guillaume said, there's no coming to consciousness without pain.
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