Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine
There is nothing to do but be.
world want different
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.
forgiving actors littles
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.
mean cutting ideas
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.
heart love-is bridges
The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.
healing awareness judgment
Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.
light clouds shining
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.
mother father men
When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.
long matter remember
It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!
enough should
We've all been should upon enough.
can-do true-nature
The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
believe heart suffering
There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)
intuition rooms next
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.
letting-go mean
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)