When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time. — 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
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 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… — Stephen Levine 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 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
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
When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion,… — 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
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