People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is โnothing.โ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally.
Stephen LevineGratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.
Stephen LevineWhen we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.
Stephen LevineWanting 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