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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
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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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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
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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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[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
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Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.
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If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
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Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.
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Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
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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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Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.
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Death is perfectly safe. (55)
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