Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine
healing compassion wounded
Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.
spiritual love-is bridges
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
grief sadness healing
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.
heart hell
Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.
inspirational friendship relationship
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?
pain essence suffering
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.
letting-go mean suffering
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.
love-is mind-love bridges
We shall not cease from exploring,And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
love love-is identity
Love is not what we become but who we already are
pain healing definitions
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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.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)
god baby flower
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.
motivational pain healing
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)
art fall dust
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.
jesus life-and-love maps
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