Quotes from Lester Levenson

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

The only limitations you have are the ones that you accept.

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Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.

Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety.

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.

What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.

When one really loves, one can never be hurt.

The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other.

Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.