121 Quotes by Stephen Levine

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

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 work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

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 immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.

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.

We shall not cease from exploring,And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Love is not what we become but who we already are