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God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.
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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 that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence.
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Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it.
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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 they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one.... Let's take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted.
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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 not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.
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Letting the last breath come.
Letting the last breath go.
Dissolving, dissolving into vast space,
the light body released from its heavier form.
A sense of connectedness with all that is,
all sense of separation dissolved
in the vastness of being.
Each breath melting into space
as though it were the last.
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Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.
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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. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Stephen Levine
Born:
July 17, 1937
Died:
January 17, 2016
(aged 78)
Bio:
Stephen Levine was an American poet, author and teacher best known for his work on death and dying.
Known for:
A Gradual Awakening (1979)
Healing Into Life and Death (1987)
Unattended Sorrow (2005)
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