"It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within."

-- Stephen Levine

#Healing Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Names Quotes

“... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through...”

Source : Song: Changes, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”
“You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.”
“The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.”
“And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.”
“True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.”
“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”
“I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.”

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