“The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Acceptance is the vessel of realization.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Every ‘no’ is a ‘yes’ to something.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“It doesn’t matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you’d have quit this Game before you played it.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“All work done with love is healing work.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“What matters in relationship isn’t how you see each other, but whether you see each other.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Love is the highest form of meditation.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“A healer’s power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“True wisdom is being able to say ‘it is what it is’ with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.”
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal