Stephen Levine Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity;
  when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes
  compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know
  all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways,
  to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are
  neither separate from nor superior to anyone.

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, Pain, Compassion

• Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.

  Stephen Levine

  Letting Go, Mean, Suffering

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.55, Anchor

• Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Essence, Suffering

• Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

  Stephen Levine

  Should Have, Suffering, Might

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.3, Anchor

• [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

  Self, Suffering Of Others, Let It Go

• 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)

  Stephen Levine

  Believe, Heart, Suffering

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.143, Harmony

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