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 More Quotes by Stephen Levine More Quotes From Stephen Levine 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. Stephen Levine positive-thinking roots mind To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. Stephen Levine touched heal 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 giving life thinking Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. Stephen Levine spiritual inspiring love 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 chinese essence heart Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. Stephen Levine live-life inspiration practice 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 flower god baby The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. Stephen Levine being-human listening attention 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 grief spiritual loss Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. Stephen Levine always-being-right addiction block The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature. Stephen Levine true-nature can-do That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116) Stephen Levine compassion 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 sadness grief healing Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74) Stephen Levine difficult touching memories 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 answers letting-go people 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 pain healing motivational 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 good-life attitude believe Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be. Stephen Levine peace-on-earth earth It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within. Stephen Levine compassion healing names Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79) Stephen Levine self-love forgiveness healing
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