Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been. - Stephen Levine
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
- 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
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…
Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear. - Stephen Levine
Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.
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
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, …
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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in … - Stephen Levine
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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in …
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
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
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
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…
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
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…
Love is not what we become but who we already are - Stephen Levine
Love is not what we become but who we already are
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