Eckhart Tolle says people wrongly believe the external world exists to make them happy, then feel personally insulted when it doesn't. Life's actual purpose is to awaken consciousness, not deliver pleasure. Chasing the happiness shown on social media keeps you from inner awareness.
There is a fundamental misconception in human beings, and that misconception is they believe that the world has the ability to make them happy, but this is being withheld from them, and they regard that as a personal insult by life is doing. Why is life withholding happiness from me? Why all the things always happen to me? Because it's not happening to others. You read their Facebook posts, and they're all happy. They're eating meals. You see pictures of meals. Look, I'm eating this. Oh, okay. And then you see their happy faces. And not only are they happy, they're also so good looking. Everybody's good looking. It's a technology of filters and stuff. But of course, that misconception is that the world is here to make you happy, and it can't do that. It's not here to make you happy. It's here to make you conscious, to awaken you.
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