"Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent."

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Source : Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.3, Rodale

Stephen Levine

#Spiritual Quotes #Grief Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.”
“Putting my face in food is not a habit I have unless I'm really drunk.”
“For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the â€˜ouchâ€™ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to scrutiny, and let it hold you up to scrutiny. In the end, the ball is always thrown back to you: â€˜Be a lamp unto yourself,â€™ says the Buddha. In other words, you must ultimately find the way on your own, by putting your ideas of the truth to the test. Your questions light the way.”
“My photographs recall the memories of the human race.”
“All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.”
“Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.”
“And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...”
“Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.”

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