Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. — 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
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light… — 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
The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge. — 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
Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness… — 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
Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of… — 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
There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of… — 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
“[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
