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
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to… — Stephen Levine Active Copy Share Image
When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred. — Stephen Levine Divine 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 Going away 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 Deals 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 Compassion 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
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
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the… — Stephen Levine Awareness Copy Share Image
It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity… — Stephen Levine Acknowledge 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
Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind. — Stephen Levine Acting Copy Share Image
Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what… — Stephen Levine Completeness Copy Share Image
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be… — Stephen Levine Being true 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
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. — Stephen Levine Fear 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
It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember! — Stephen Levine Forget Copy Share Image
You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as… — Stephen Levine Birth 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