Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the… — 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 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 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