Stephen Levine Short Quotes

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It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!

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How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die?

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

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That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom.

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Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

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Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

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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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Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

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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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Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it.

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It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

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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.

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When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world.

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Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

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Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

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In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same — Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

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Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth.
It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our
natural wisdom.

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Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

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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 withdrawn in judgment and dismay.

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