[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95) — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116) — Stephen Levine Compassion Copy Share Image
“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)” — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine 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
If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody. — Stephen Levine Funny 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
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74) — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we… — Stephen Levine Action 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 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
People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what… — Stephen Levine 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
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
When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as… — Stephen Levine 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
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
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
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are… — Stephen Levine 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 Copy Share Image
Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people… — Stephen Levine Afterlife Copy Share Image
In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator… — Stephen Levine Body Copy Share Image
The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge. — Stephen Levine Abyss 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
What is it like after you die? Just like it was before you were born. — Stephen Levine Birth Copy Share Image
“[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)” — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. — Stephen Levine Fear Copy Share Image
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88) — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are. — Stephen Levine 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
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 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
“A drop of pond water under the microscope just like in science class but now your are the pond & the microscope… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what… — Stephen Levine Phone call 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
Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
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