The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature. — Stephen Levine Can do Copy Share Image
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine Afterthought Copy Share Image
Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. — Stephen Levine Learning Copy Share Image
If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time. — Stephen Levine Atmosphere Copy Share Image
“[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)” — Stephen Levine Standing Copy Share Image
Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are. — Stephen Levine Disappear Copy Share Image
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88) — Stephen Levine Accepting Copy Share Image
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. — Stephen Levine Fear Copy Share Image
We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it… — Stephen Levine Direct Copy Share Image
Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when… — Stephen Levine Caught 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 Awareness Copy Share Image
Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that… — Stephen Levine Addiction Copy Share Image
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74) — Stephen Levine Difficult Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside… — Stephen Levine Buddhism Copy Share Image
Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting… — Stephen Levine Appreciation Copy Share Image
Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most… — Stephen Levine Aspect Copy Share Image
The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which… — Stephen Levine Art 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 Attitude 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… — Stephen Levine Different 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 Alive 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 Cases Copy Share Image
“Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect,… — Stephen Levine Knowledge Copy Share Image
I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could… — Stephen Levine Behinds 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 Blocked Copy Share Image
Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear. — Stephen Levine Awareness Copy Share Image
The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge. — Stephen Levine Abyss Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember! — Stephen Levine Forget Copy Share Image
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79) — Stephen Levine Difficult Copy Share Image
“Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is… — Stephen Levine Meditation 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 Chinese Copy Share Image
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means… — Stephen Levine Hardest Copy Share Image
You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable… — Stephen Levine Buddhism Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a… — Stephen Levine Common Copy Share Image
Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single… — Stephen Levine Causes Copy Share Image
Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But… — Stephen Levine Jesus 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… — Stephen Levine Phone call Copy Share Image
“A drop of pond water under the microscope just like in science class but now your are the pond & the microscope… — Stephen Levine Pond Copy Share Image
Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die,… — Stephen Levine Heart Copy Share Image
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is… — Stephen Levine Absence Copy Share Image
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would… — Stephen Levine Back together Copy Share Image
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