“Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)” MindBelieveStatesLife IsAttitudeQualitySituationPovertyOur LivesEventsLuckIllnessRichesGood LifeState Of MindOur RelationshipGood LuckDeathbedAppraise Author:Stephen Levine
“We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)” MotivationalPainDifficultHealingWonderOur LivesAliveMotivatedAttemptingAversion Book:A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.” InspirationPracticeOur LivesMeditationLive LifeMeditation PracticeMeditation MindAfterthought Book:Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings Source: Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings
“Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"” IfsThinkingLifeGivingDiesOur LivesAliveMindfulnessConsciousShouldersPermissionLooking BackAssuredShakingBewildermentMuttering Author:Stephen Levine
