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• Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

  Stephen Levine

  Love, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.14, Anchor

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• Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.

  Stephen Levine

  Appreciation, Cheating, Lying

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• Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe 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. (34)

  Stephen Levine

  Attitude, Good Life, Believe

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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.

  Stephen Levine

  Grief, Healing, Sadness

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.92, Anchor

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• There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its radiance, its fragrance, its stillness is another moment's experience of something deeper within. When we hold a baby, when we hear extraordinary music, when we look into the eyes of a great saint, what draws us is that deep homesickness for our true nature, for the peace and healing that is our birthright. This homesickness for God directs us toward the healing we took birth for.

  Stephen Levine

  God, Baby, Flower

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

  Stephen Levine

  Inspiration, Live Life, Practice

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings”, p.9, Anchor

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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.

  Stephen Levine

  Heart, Essence, Chinese

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.69, Anchor

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• Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Going Away, Praying

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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.

  Stephen Levine

  Block, Addiction, Always Being Right

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.76, Anchor

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• Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.

  Stephen Levine

  Eye, Trying

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.52, Anchor

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• We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

  Stephen Levine

  Thinking, Numb, Knows

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• When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

  Stephen Levine

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.21, Harmony

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

  Stephen Levine

  Heart, Mind, Acting

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2010). “Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening”, p.154, Anchor

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• Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

  Stephen Levine

  Memories, Touching, Difficult

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• You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

  Stephen Levine

  Joy, Mindfulness, Ongoing

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• Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

  Stephen Levine

  Distance, Heart, Partners

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• If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

  Stephen Levine

  God, Ifs

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• Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

  Stephen Levine

  Spiritual, People, Safety

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• The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

  Stephen Levine

  Heart, Love Is, Bridges

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• Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.

  Stephen Levine

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.28, Anchor

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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.

  Stephen Levine

  Grief, Loss, Rope

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.9, Rodale

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• God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

  Stephen Levine

  Reality, Moments

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings”, p.249, Anchor

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• People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally.

  Stephen Levine

  Letting Go, People, Answers

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• There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

  Stephen Levine

  Believe, Heart, Suffering

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.143, Harmony

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• Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.

  Stephen Levine

  Earth, Peace On Earth

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