“Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.” Noah Levine Refuge Recovery (2014) Reality
“While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us.” Noah Levine Refuge Recovery (2014) Self-confidence
“Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.” Noah Levine Against the Stream (2007) Time
“The most important thing to remember is that we must live in the present, and if in the present moment we are still holding on to old wounds and betrayals, it is in this moment that forgiveness is called for.” Noah Levine Against the Stream (2007) Forgiveness , Betrayal
“Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.” Noah Levine Against the Stream (2007) Happiness , Heart , Pleasure , Feeling