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“Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.”

- Stephen Levine
Posted on June 26, 2018 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
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“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.”

- Stephen Levine
Posted on November 8, 2016 by Juniper Quin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”

- Stephen Levine
Posted on July 12, 2016 by Juniper Quin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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“The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.”

- Stephen Levine
Posted on May 17, 2016 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
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