Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance… — 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
