Top 32 Noah Levine Quotes

#1. Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

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#2. Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

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#3. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

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#4. If our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

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#5. The Dalai Lama is rumored to have said that being able to have sex without any attachment would take the level of attainment of being able to eat either chocolate cake or dog shit without any preference between the two.

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#6. Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.

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#7. The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

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#8. The more I practiced kindness and humility, the more the world seemed to appear friendly and manageable.

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#9. Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

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#10. While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us.

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#11. We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

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#12. The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

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#13. Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

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#14. Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.

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#15. We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don't have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure.

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#16. We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them - and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.

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#17. With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.

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#18. An action from a confused and suffering being in the past doesn't represent what that being is forever; it is only an expression of that being's suffering. And if we cling to resentment over past hurts, we simply increase our own suffering.

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#19. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

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#20. The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

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#21. In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human

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#22. It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

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#23. The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.

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#24. Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

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#25. The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty.

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#26. Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

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#27. The body breathes by itself. The mind thinks by itself. Awareness simply observes the process without getting lost in the content.

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#28. God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

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#29. If we cling now, we suffer later. If

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#30. The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

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#31. I didn't feel like there was anything incompatible with my love of gangster rap and my spiritual aspirations.

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#32. Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

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