Stephen Levine, A Year To Live: How To Live This Year As If It Were Your Last Quotes

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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.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)

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

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)

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

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

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)

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

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