All Stephen Levine Quotes
- If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody. Everybody
- The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again… Art
- In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease...Hypoxia, or… All
- Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is… Almost Never
- Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Beyond
- ...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is… Anything Else
- Whatever prepares you for death enhances life. Death
- Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be. Begin
- Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser… From
- Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness. Awareness
- God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality. Each
- When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. Become Compassion
- You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death,… All
- Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is… Die
- I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak… Been
- Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except… All
- Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what… Appraise
- How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88) Accept
- We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our… Alive
- I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for… Abjured
- If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have… Awareness
- Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50) Fear
- Death is perfectly safe. (55) Death
- Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74) Begins
- Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79) Difficult