Lester Levenson Quotes
The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
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.
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.
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.
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.
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.
Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.
Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.
A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.
There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.
People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.
Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.
Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.
Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.
If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!
Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.
Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.
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.
Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.
The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.
The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.
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.
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.
