Stephen Levine Quotes
"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 life, to avoid rather than enter our pain, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive."
"Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it."
"Those who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time."
"When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion."
"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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay."
"There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it."
"God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality."
"That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom."
"Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How we appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind."
"How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die?"
Thank you for your inspiring write ups!
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