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Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

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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
Fear
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Mercy
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Judgment
Awareness

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