Stephen Levine Quotes

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• Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does…
• Love is not what we become but who we already are
• Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
• Death is just a change in lifestyles.
• Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something…
• The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
• Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness.…
• Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
• Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything…
• Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are…
• Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have…
• When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to…
• If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
• There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people…
• Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled…
• It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label…
• Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time…
• To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.
• Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of…
• Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing…

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