The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die,… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)” — Stephen Levine Copy Share
“When you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot.… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
“A drop of pond water under the microscope just like in science class but now your are the pond & the microscope is mindfulness” — Stephen Levine Copy Share
If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time. — Stephen Levine Copy Share
In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease...Hypoxia,… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire… — Stephen Levine Copy Share
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. — Stephen Levine Copy Share
