Stephen Levine Quotes

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• Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

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  Should Have, Suffering, Might

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.3, Anchor

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• The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.

  Stephen Levine

  Art, Fall, Dust

  Stephen Levine (1984). “Meetings at the edge: dialogues with the grieving and the dying, the healing and the healed”, Anchor Books

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• When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity;
  when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes
  compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know
  all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways,
  to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are
  neither separate from nor superior to anyone.

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  Inspirational, Pain, Compassion

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• Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.

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  Pain, Essence, Suffering

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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

  Stephen Levine

  Jesus, Life And Love, Maps

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.18, Anchor

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• When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Grief, Compassion

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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.

  Stephen Levine

  Spiritual, Grief, Loss

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.3, Rodale

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• Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

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  Healing, Compassion, Wounded

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• Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

  Stephen Levine

  Healing, Judgment, Awareness

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• Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.

  Stephen Levine

  Letting Go, Mean, Suffering

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.55, Anchor

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• If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

  Stephen Levine

  Attachment, Feelings, Mind

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.51, Anchor

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• The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

  Stephen Levine

  Listening, Attention, Being Human

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• To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

  Stephen Levine

  Heal, Touched

  "To Heal Is to Touch With Love" by Bil Hitchcock, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell.

  Stephen Levine

  Letting Go, Mind, Balance

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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. (48)

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Healing, Definitions

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• The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

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  Can Do, True Nature

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2010). “Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening”, p.135, Anchor

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• Love is not what we become but who we already are

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  Love, Love You, Love Is

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.67, Anchor

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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.

  Stephen Levine

  Rest In Peace, Light, Space

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.281, Anchor

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• Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

  Stephen Levine

  Heart, Hell

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• Death is just a change in lifestyles.

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  Life, Change, Death

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.290, Anchor

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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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  Intuition, Rooms, Next

  Stephen Levine (1984). “Meetings at the edge: dialogues with the grieving and the dying, the healing and the healed”, Anchor Books

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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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  Positive Thinking, Roots, Mind

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• 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 we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

  Stephen Levine

  Motivational, Pain, Healing

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.54, Harmony

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• 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?"

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  Life, Thinking, Giving

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