Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to… — Stephen Levine 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 Copy Share Image
Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being.… — Stephen Levine 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 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 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 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time. — Stephen Levine 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? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over…” quote by Stephen Levine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bc0/stephen-levine-6949_alive_why-do-so-many-of-us-not-give-ourselves_1212426.jpg)
![“[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)” quote by Stephen Levine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e9/stephen-levine-6949_time_t-hose-who-insist-they-ve-got-their-shit_132123.jpg)
