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 not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"
- Stephen Levine
More Quotes By Stephen Levine
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness... Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left... When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity;
when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes
compassion. To train... When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain... If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you... Death is just a change in lifestyles.
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains,... Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most... Love is not what we become but who we already are
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any... Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have... Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
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