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Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.

Stephen Levine

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Stephen Levine
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 17
Died: 2016
Died: January 17
Poet
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the United States of America
Stephan Levine
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That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
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Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.
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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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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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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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Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.
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Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)
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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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How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
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If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot. It's different if the thing you want most in the world is truth, and your partner is the person you want most in the world.
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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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Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.
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I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)
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If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
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