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I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

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Stephen Levine
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 17
Died: 2016
Died: January 17
Poet
Screenwriter
the United States of America
Stephan Levine
Death
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Life
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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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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.
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If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
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Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A sense of connectedness with all that is, all sense of separation dissolved in the vastness of being. Each breath melting into space as though it were the last.
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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.
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If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.
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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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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.
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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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The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.
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That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
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