Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

- Stephen Levine

When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion, then, …

- Stephen Levine

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…

- Stephen Levine

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in …

- Stephen Levine

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

- Stephen Levine

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

- Stephen Levine

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 im…

- Stephen Levine

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 im…

- Stephen Levine

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

- Stephen Levine