The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature. — Stephen Levine Can do Copy Share Image
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine Afterthought Copy Share Image
If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody. — Stephen Levine Funny Copy Share Image
When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred. — Stephen Levine Divine Copy Share Image
God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality. — Stephen Levine Moments Copy Share Image
Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind. — Stephen Levine Acting Copy Share Image
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. — Stephen Levine Attention Copy Share Image
“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)” — Stephen Levine Heaven hell Copy Share Image
Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away,… — Stephen Levine Going away Copy Share Image
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be… — Stephen Levine Being true Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we… — Stephen Levine Action Copy Share Image
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the… — Stephen Levine Awareness Copy Share Image
People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what… — Stephen Levine Allowing Copy Share Image
“...forgiveness is not a condoning of the unskillful act which has caused injury, but a touching of the actor with mercy and… — Stephen Levine Compassion Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine Compassion Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside… — Stephen Levine Buddhism Copy Share Image
Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what… — Stephen Levine Completeness Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness… — Stephen Levine Compassion Copy Share Image
You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as… — Stephen Levine Birth Copy Share Image
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction… — Stephen Levine Deals Copy Share Image
Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die?… — Stephen Levine Alive Copy Share Image
Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of… — Stephen Levine Desire Copy Share Image
If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a… — Stephen Levine Different Copy Share Image
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting… — Stephen Levine Alive Copy Share Image
There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at… — Stephen Levine Baby Copy Share Image
“When we recognize that, just like the glass, our body is already broken, that indeed we are already dead, then life becomes… — Stephen Levine Another opportunity Copy Share Image
“When you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be… — Stephen Levine Meditation Copy Share Image
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