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Stephen Levine Inspirational Quotes (43)

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When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.
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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.
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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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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.
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Death is perfectly safe. (55)
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Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.
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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.
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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
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Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.
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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.
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Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)
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If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.
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Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.
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If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
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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.
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Death is just a change in lifestyles.
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Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.
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We've all been should upon enough.
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Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.
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