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It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!

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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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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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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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The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.
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The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell.
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Death is perfectly safe. (55)
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That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
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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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We've all been should upon enough.
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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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Death is just a change in lifestyles.
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Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.
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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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Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.
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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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Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.
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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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Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)
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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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