There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at… — Stephen Levine Baby Copy Share Image
People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what… — Stephen Levine Allowing 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
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
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
“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)” — Stephen Levine Heaven or hell Copy Share Image
Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die?… — Stephen Levine Alive Copy Share Image
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116) — Stephen Levine Compassion Copy Share Image
The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge. — Stephen Levine Abyss 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
“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
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
“When we recognize that, just like the glass, our body is already broken, that indeed we are already dead, then life becomes… — Stephen Levine Another opportunity Copy Share Image
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95) — Stephen Levine Letting go Copy Share Image
The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature. — Stephen Levine Can do Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine Compassion 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
“...forgiveness is not a condoning of the unskillful act which has caused injury, but a touching of the actor with mercy and… — Stephen Levine Compassion 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
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine Afterthought Copy Share Image
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