Lester Levenson Quotes

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it.

I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.

People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

We are all Gods acting like goddamned fools.

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.

Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.

If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.

Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self.

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety.

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.

The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.

Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.

What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.

Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb you.

When one really loves, one can never be hurt.

The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.

There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.

The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other.