Eckhart Tolle asserts that the world’s purpose is not to make individuals happy but to awaken their consciousness and lead them to find God. Life contains built-in challenges and frustrations intended to provoke inner growth; assuming the world exists to satisfy personal desires generates suffering because resistance and complaint arise whenever one is challenged.
The world isn't here to make you happy. It's here to awaken you. The ultimate purpose of the world is to make you conscious, to find God. Within this dimension of depth, something is built into life to challenge you, frustrate you, not to satisfy you. So the whole assumption that the world is here to satisfy you creates a lot of suffering. Because every time you get challenged, you complain and say, oh, this shouldn't be happening.
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