Stephen Levine Quotes

Stephen Levine was an American poet, author and teacher best known for his work on death and dying. He is one of a generation of pioneering teachers who, along with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg, have made the teachings of Theravada Buddhism more widely available to students in the West. Like the writings of his colleague and close friend, Ram Dass , Stephen's work is also flavoured by the devotional practices and teachings of the Hindu Guru Neem Karoli Baba. This aspect of his teaching may be considered one way in which his work differs from that of the more purely Buddhist oriented teachers named above. Since Buddhism is largely considered a non-theistic faith, his allusions in his teachings to a creator, which he variously terms God, The Beloved, The One and 'Uugghh,' further distinguish his work from that of other contemporary Buddhist writers. Wikipedia

✵ 17. July 1937 – 17. January 2016

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Famous Stephen Levine Quotes

“[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)”

Stephen Levine

Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)”

Stephen Levine

Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go…. Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)”

Stephen Levine

Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)”

Stephen Levine

Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“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?”

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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)”

Stephen Levine

Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

Stephen Levine

“How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)”

Stephen Levine

Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

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