"Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A sense of connectedness with all that is, all sense of separation dissolved in the vastness of being. Each breath melting into space as though it were the last."

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Source : Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.281, Anchor

Stephen Levine

#Rest In Peace Quotes #Space Quotes #Light Quotes

“The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly provide the sharpest preventative measures against the continued attack-politics Germany undertook. Possibilities existed for this, but no measures were seized upon.”

Source : Diary entry, May 29, 1940.
“The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.”
“But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.”
“To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.”
“Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.”
“We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.”
“We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.”
“University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.”

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