Perhaps the most memorable movie quote on "suffering" is Yoda's:
However, Eckhart Tolle, extremely popular spiritual author, might disagree with Yoda. Watch this 5 minute video of his thoughts on suffering:
What are your thoughts of the video?
Eckhart says that "you need suffering to come to a point of ending suffering." Is this true?
What is a time in which you drew strength
from a moment of suffering in your life?
Is suffering, to any extent, a self inflicted action as Tolle suggests?
Eckhart also states that when you see your own suffering, you can avoid inflicting suffering on both yourself and others because "the two go together." Do you agree?
In what ways has other people's suffering
led your own suffering?
In what ways has your suffering caused
that in other?
Discussion point: External Suffering
vs Internal Suffering.
How do we change the way we interpret suffering?
If we are to truly live like Jesus, does
that mean we should embrace suffering as He did? Should we embrace that
suffering for others' sake? Just as He did... How did He interpret
the suffering He endured for our sake?
Bible References
2 Corinthians 1:2-4
Praise
be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and
the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can
comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
1 Peter 5:10
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
Matthew 10:38
Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
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