{"author":"Stephen Levine","author_id":"Stephen+Levine","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["love","love is","mind "],"id":28961,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26).","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["death","dying","healing","love","sacred-ground"],"id":50320,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34).","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["attitudes","death","dying","life","relationship","state-of-mind"],"id":61420,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"Death is perfectly safe. (55).","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["death","dying","safety"],"id":70412,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74).","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["forgiveness","grief","healing","healing-the-past","memory","tension"],"id":86573,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132).","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["afterlife","born","life","living","rebirth","reincarnation","this-moment"],"id":113550,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79).","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["forgiveness","healing","self-love"],"id":115261,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what’s the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you’re not at its mercy. When you don’t understand, you’re lost in the midst of it.","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["meditation"],"id":122472,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"Love is not what we become but who we already are.","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["lighten"],"id":131327,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"},{"text":"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).","author":"Stephen Levine","tags":["acceptance","awareness","dismay","healing","judgment","mental-health","mercy","pain","physical-health"],"id":172071,"author_id":"Stephen+Levine"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}