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If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

Stephen Levine

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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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Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.
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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.
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Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.
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Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our sympathetic joy, our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.
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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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Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.
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I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)
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It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!
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Death is perfectly safe. (55)
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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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How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
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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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Death is just a change in lifestyles.
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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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It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.
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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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