That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)
[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)
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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.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)
The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.
Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is simply awareness. Meditation is awareness.
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
[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)
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
Love is not what we become but who we already are.
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.