Compassion Quote by Stephen Levine

“[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)”

— Stephen Levine

“When you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than…

— Stephen Levine

Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we…

— Stephen Levine

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we…

— Stephen Levine

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you…

— Stephen Levine

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

— Stephen Levine

Love is not what we become, but what we already are.

— Stephen Levine

...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing…

— Stephen Levine

If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot.…

— Stephen Levine

Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A…

— Stephen Levine

“A drop of pond water under the microscope just like in science class but now your are the pond & the microscope is mindfulness”

— Stephen Levine

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

— Stephen Levine