Eric Micha'el Leventhal Quotes

The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole.

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.

The less human you feel, the more human you become.

As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.

One truth remains clear through the doubts and the questions, whether sinful or sanctified, virtue or vice:
While the past may belong to the Buddhists and Christians, the future belongs to the Buddhas and Christs.

In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics.

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.

All work done with love is healing work.

The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us.

Love is the highest form of meditation.

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are.

A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.

From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do.

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions.

Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.

Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is.

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.

Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

To experience what isn't, love what is.

I never realized it was all a game,
until I started winning.

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

无惧无急 (The fearless do not hurry.)