If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

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)

...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open-- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.

To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

Because noting states of mind as they arise keep us present, it allows us to meet difficulties at their inception – before they become more real than we are.

The mind is in a constant state of flux. No thought, no feeling, no sensation lasts for more than an instant before it is transformed into the next state, next thought, the next sensation. Note those moments... As they pass through, note such states as confidence, bewilderment, effort, trust, distrust, pleasure, discomfort, boredom, devotion, inquiry, pride, anger, desire, etc.

Stephen Levine

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