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Stephen Levine Quotes about Grief

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When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Stephen Levine
Pain, Grief, Compassion

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.

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

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

Stephen Levine
Grief, Healing, Sadness
Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.92, Anchor

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

Stephen Levine
Grief, Loss, Rope
Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.9, Rodale

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