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“ We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43) ”

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There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

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Stephen Levine Forgiveness God Love Openness Suffering

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

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Stephen Levine Compassion Impermanence Permanence Wisdom

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

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Stephen Levine Confidence Death Joy Life Mindfulness Rebirth Reincarnation

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

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Stephen Levine Death Dying Safety