Nonattachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life. —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: feeling mind presence desire nonattachment spaciousness witness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Stephen Levine If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: love regret death conversation waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: love regret death conversation waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “desire” He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. —Antonio Porchia More about this quote Tags: desire making Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Happy and content one day, / ambition and desire eat you alive the next. / It's always been this way. Back and forth, / back and forth. That's the way it goes. —David Budbill More about this quote Tags: ambition desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There's an African proverb: "When death finds you, may it find you alive." Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live. —Michael Meade More about this quote Tags: life living parents death desire want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. —Niccolo Machiavelli More about this quote Tags: success time change desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. —Thomas Henry Huxley More about this quote Tags: education will desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. —Antonio Porchia More about this quote Tags: desire making Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happy and content one day, / ambition and desire eat you alive the next. / It's always been this way. Back and forth, / back and forth. That's the way it goes. —David Budbill More about this quote Tags: ambition desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's an African proverb: "When death finds you, may it find you alive." Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live. —Michael Meade More about this quote Tags: life living parents death desire want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. —Niccolo Machiavelli More about this quote Tags: success time change desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. —Thomas Henry Huxley More about this quote Tags: education will desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email