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)

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definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.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

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)

Stretch out your tongue and let the words drip on the world like savage shooting muses, never, never to be forgotten, if once fallen on earth, they stand in glittery defloration.

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

No one can steal your joy from you, but you...take your power back!

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Don't dress for fashion, dress for yourself

Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.