Eric Micha'el Leventhal Quotes

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

To experience what isn't, love what is.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.)

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Thoughts don't become things, thoughts ARE things.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don't conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Either nobody's perfect,or everyone is.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon you'll just feel better.And then you'll feel awesome.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

As a rule,I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Love is the highest form of meditation.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

What matters in relationship isn't how you see each other, but whether you see each other.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal