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
God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality. — Stephen Levine Moments Copy Share Image
What is it like after you die? Just like it was before you were born. — Stephen Levine Birth 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
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
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
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying… — Stephen Levine Atheism Copy Share Image
The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of… — Stephen Levine Accepting Copy Share Image
“The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as… — Stephen Levine Knowledge Copy Share Image
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88) — Stephen Levine Accepting 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
When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as… — Stephen Levine Beats Copy Share Image
Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion. — Stephen Levine Compassion Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion,… — Stephen Levine Compassion Copy Share Image
There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of… — Stephen Levine Balance Copy Share Image
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be. — Stephen Levine Earth Copy Share Image
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been. — Stephen Levine Could have been Copy Share Image
When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. — Stephen Levine Acknowledge Copy Share Image
It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to… — Stephen Levine Floats Copy Share Image