Quotes from Stephen Levine

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

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.

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.

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

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.

Love is not what we become but who we already are