Lester Levenson Quotes
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Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.
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The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.
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There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.
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Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.
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We are all Gods acting like goddamned fools.
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Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.
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All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.
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Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it.
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There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.
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Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.
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A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.
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Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.
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The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
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Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.
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You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.
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We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
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I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.
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The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.
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What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.
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The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.
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Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self.
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The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.
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All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other.
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When one really loves, one can never be hurt.
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Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.
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There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.
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If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.
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I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.
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Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.
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The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.
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