Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine
Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.
fear-not relate
Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)
safe
Death is perfectly safe. (55)
god ifs
If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.
heart son matter
Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)
strong fear desire
Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)
understanding mind seduction
Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.
There is nothing to do but be.
world want different
If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot. It's different if the thing you want most in the world is truth, and your partner is the person you want most in the world.
forgiving actors littles
Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.
mean cutting ideas
You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.
heart love-is bridges
The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.
healing awareness judgment
Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.
light clouds shining
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.