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Life Quotes by Stephen Levine
- Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
- The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- ...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…
- Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)
- Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle